The Cochrane Oral Health Group

The Cochrane Collaboration: the Oral Health Group.

T o help people make well-informed decisions about health care, it is important that systematic reviews of current best evidence are available. This is of particular importance in dentistry, where many dentists work in relative isolation, with no hope of critically evaluating the thousands of journal articles published each year, nor of verifying the claims of those advocating novel interventio...

Characteristics of the Cochrane Oral Health Group systematic reviews.

The Cochrane Oral Health Group (COHG) was formed in 1994 with the aim of producing systematic reviews that primarily include oral health randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to characterize reviews published by the COHG. In September 2013, the COHG database was accessed, and all publications were downloaded. Reviews with no studies identified accord...

The cochrane oral health group trials register: electronic searching and beyond.

and indexing terms assigned by professional indexers (in MEDLINE these are Medical Subject Headings or MeSH). Essentially, for the researcher, electronic searches chiefly rely on two things: • the controlled vocabulary (in MEDLINE MeSH) terms assigned to the article by professional indexers; and • descriptors (text words) used by author/s in the title and abstract. Where the detail of the study...

The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group.

[The Cochrane Skin Group].

Over the last 10 years, the advent of evidence-based medicine has caused a paradigm shift in medical thinking and clinical practice. The Cochrane Skin Group organizes, drafts, publishes, and updates systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials of therapeutic interventions in skin diseases to assist in evidence-based clinical decision making. This article provides background information on t...