Cochrane Collaboration welcomes patient participation

The International Cochrane Collaboration.

Introduction If we are asked how effective mefloquine is in preventing malaria, our response might tell our questioner a lot about how we learn about the world around us, how we assimilate that knowledge and experience, and how it influences our subsequent decision making and action. Thirty years ago, Archie Cochrane drew attention to the haphazard way in which the research evidence about the e...

[The Cochrane collaboration and the Cochrane library in urology].

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, non-profit making organisation which aims to help people make well-informed health care decisions. The main objective is to prepare, update, promote and facilitate access to systematic reviews on health care interventions. The main product is The Cochrane Library, a quarterly electronic publication. The principles and structure of the Cochrane Col...

Participation and Scientific Collaboration in Persian Wikipedia

Background and Aim: This research studies the effective participation and scientific collaboration in Persian Wikipedia, from 2003-2012.  Method: The library method has been used. Also, considering the objectives and the nature of subject, the research method is a descriptive-applied and during its implementation scientometric technique has been used. Excel and SPSS softwares have been used for...

The Cochrane collaboration in the Third World.

T he publ icat ion of a paper by the Cochrane Injuries Group Albumin Reviewers [BMJ 1998; 317(7153):235-240] gives us a good example of the importance of the Cochrane Collaboration for medical practice and rcscarch. In spite 01" have being used for more than 50 years, alburnin infusion in criiical patients has not yet been properly studieel. This syste matic review, initially publisheel in the ...

The Cochrane Collaboration and systematic reviews.