Cochrane Stroke Group 10 Years On

Cochrane Stroke Group 10 years on: progress to date and future challenges.

The Cochrane Collaboration 1 is an international organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining, and ensuring the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions. In the early 1990s, there was clearly a need for systematic reviews in stroke,2 and so the Cochrane Stroke Group3 was set up and registere...

Contribution of Stroke to the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials Register.

Contribution of Stroke to the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials Register To the Editor: The formulation of evidence-based stroke care practice guidelines is guided by the results of randomized trials. We sought to determine what proportion of all trial reports are published in Stroke, and what proportion might be missed by electronic search methods. One of us (B.T.) performed a page-by-page search o...

Meta-analysis and The Cochrane Collaboration: 20 years of the Cochrane Statistical Methods Group

The Statistical Methods Group has played a pivotal role in The Cochrane Collaboration over the past 20 years. The Statistical Methods Group has determined the direction of statistical methods used within Cochrane reviews, developed guidance for these methods, provided training, and continued to discuss and consider new and controversial issues in meta-analysis. The contribution of Statistical M...

Cochrane back review group.

The Cochrane Back Review Group is one of 50 Review Groups that produces and maintains systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare. The goal is to provide the most up-to-date information to inform clinical decisions at the individual, institutional and policy level. The scope of the Back Review Group is primary and secondary prevention and treatment of neck and back pain and other spinal dis...

The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group.