1. Using Cochrane Systematic Reviews in everyday healthcare Marta Dyson, Account Manager – Central & Eastern Europe  

2. Information about healthcare is everywhere…
but how do you know if one treatment works better than another, or if it will do more harm than good?
What can healthcare professionals use to make sense of all the research going on around the world?

3.
A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making
Brings together research on the effectiveness of treatments and interventions
The single most reliable source for evidence on the effects of healthcare
THE COCHRANE LIBRARY
A collection of databases that contain high quality independent evidence to inform healthcare decision making
Brings together research on the effectiveness of treatments and interventions
The single most reliable source of evidence on the effects of healthcare
produced by The Cochrane Collaboration - a not for profit organisation whose aim is to improve healthcare everywhere
And published online by Wiley-Blackwell at

4. Scope reviews the best evidence on 1,000’s of topics…
The Cochrane Library reviews the best evidence on 1,000’s of topics…
and sets the global standard for developing the tools to evaluate and report on research in healthcare
and sets the global standard for developing the tools to evaluate and report on research in healthcare

5. a search is performed every second
1 abstract viewed
every 2 seconds
1 Full Text review is downloaded every 3 seconds

8. Original Source

9. What is a Systematic Review?
A Cochrane Systematic Review:
identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in healthcare, and determines whether or not this intervention works
summarises the results of research gathered from Randomised Controlled Trials on a specific topic in a single document
A Cochrane Systematic Review:
identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in healthcare, and determines whether or not this intervention works
it summarises the results of research gathered from Randomised Controlled Trials on a specific topic within a single document

10. Structure
Each systematic review addresses a clearly formulated question; for example: Can antibiotics help in alleviating the symptoms of a sore throat? 
All the existing primary research on a topic that meets certain criteria is searched for and collated, and then assessed using stringent guidelines, to establish whether or not there is conclusive evidence about a specific treatment.
The reviews are updated regularly, ensuring that treatment decisions can be based on the most up-to-date and reliable evidence.

11. Record Format Abstract Plain Language Summary Background Objectives
Methods
Results
Discussion

12. Each review comprises of an abstract and plain language summary

13. the full review in html or pdf format

14. Diagrams for studies included
And Meta-Data Analysis. This is the statistical technique for assembling the results of several studies in a review into a single numerical estimate

15. It also includes Bibliographic links to online versions of references

16. Top 10 Reviews of 2010
Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community
Interventions for preventing obesity in children
Interventions for preventing falls in older people in nursing care facilities and hospitals
Interventions for treating obesity in children
Support surfaces for pressure ulcer prevention
Discharge planning from hospital to home
Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice-based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
Midwife-led versus other models of care for childbearing women
Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy
Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants

17. The bottom line
Without Cochrane Reviews, people making decisions are unlikely to be able to access and make full use of existing healthcare research.

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