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The GRADE approach (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) is a method of assessing the certainty in evidence (also known as quality of evidence or confidence in effect estimates) and the strength of recommendations in health care. [1] It provides a structured and transparent evaluation of the importance of outcomes ...
Cochrane Collaboration. Cochrane is a British [1] international charitable organisation formed to synthesize medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health professionals, patients and policy makers. [3][4] It includes 53 review groups that are based at research institutions worldwide.
The Cochrane Library (named after Archie Cochrane) is a collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by Cochrane and other organizations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews , a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ... [It] means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research." [1] The aim of EBM is to integrate the ...
In 2002, a Dutch retrospective study [22] analysed cases where neonatologists had intervened and drained CSF by lumbar or ventricular punctures if ventricular width (as shown on ultrasound) exceeded the 97th centile as opposed to the 97th centile plus 4 mm. [23] Professors Whitelaw's original Cochrane review [16] published in 2001 as well as ...
List of academic databases and search engines. This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ ...
BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) [1] Sir Iain Geoffrey Chalmers FRCOG FRCPE FMedSci (born 3 June 1943) is a British health services researcher, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, [3] and coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, which includes the James Lind Library and James Lind Alliance. [1][4][5][6]
Cochrane Collaboration/Cochrane UK/Cochrane Reviews. New and updated Cochrane Systematic Reviews are published every week. Prior to publication, each new review is discussed at a weekly Analysis of Review Group Output (ARGO) meeting by a group of health and communications specialists at Cochrane UK. The Cochrane reviews listed here are those ...