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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.
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.
Archie Cochrane. Archibald Leman Cochrane CBE (12 January 1909 – 18 June 1988) was a Scottish physician noted for his book, Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services, which advocated the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to improve clinical trials and medical interventions. His advocacy of RCTs eventually ...
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 ...
A systematic review is a scholarly synthesis of the evidence on a clearly presented topic using critical methods to identify, define and assess research on the topic. [1] A systematic review extracts and interprets data from published studies on the topic (in the scientific literature), then analyzes, describes, critically appraises and summarizes interpretations into a refined evidence-based ...
The Cochrane Library is the gold standard for evidence-based medicine and I want to help ensure relevant WP articles all have linkage to these valuable reports. Interested in converting Cochrane Collaboration 's redlinked Cochrane Consumer Network into article worthy of its subject - team dedicated to including patient perspectives into the ...
Cochrane provides free licenses to the Cochrane Library for people interested in using their access for editing Wikipedia content. Requirements for access can be found on the Library Card platform. Access to the Cochrane Library is reviewed regularly - in case of non-use access will be redistributed to another Wikipedia editor.
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]