Cochrane Lecture. All cost effective treatments should be free ... or, how Archie Cochrane changed my life!
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The Importance of Evidence: The Legacy of Archie Cochrane.
The establishment of Cochrane Russia within the Kazan Federal University is a great triumph. Even more signifi cant, perhaps, it is indication of the determination of the medical leadership in Tatarstan to contribute to the scientifi c factual basis for judgments and interventions in the practice of medicine. The faculty of the university is to be congratulated for showing its interest in the q...
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What is the Cochrane Library and how can it be used? The Cochrane Collaboration is a loose knit organisation of people located throughout the world who are dedicated to providing the work necessary to produce the Cochrane Library. The library is an attempt to present research findings in a way that can be easily accessed by clinicians. It is named after Archie Cochrane, a British epidemiolo-gis...
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Introduction In his seminal work Effectiveness and Efficiency, Archie Cochrane asked why, despite their enormous potential, randomized trials were much less widely used that they should be. At the time that he was writing, their geographical distribution was very uneven. He wrote ‘If some such index as the number of RCTs per 1,000 doctors per year for all the countries of the world were worked ...
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READING A RECENT NEWSPAPER MIGHT REMIND ONE of the above quote. One of the questions the nation is currently confronted with is what should be done to address the safety of drugs. In this Commentary, the current system of drug safety monitoring will be described and the limitations of the current system will be highlighted. A potential solution will then be proposed that will require legislatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.51.2.116