The Cochrane Collaboration: Cochrane Airways 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...

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...

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...

The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group.