The knowledge and relevance of nutrition as well as the demand for well-funded advices increase. The Cochrane Collaboration plays a leading role within the evidence-based medicine and practice. We ...

More than 5500 systematic reviews, at various stages of completion, are currently available in the Cochrane Library (www.cochrane.org) and 9000 systematic reviews are critically appraised for validity ...

This second article in a series on sources of evidence looks at the Cochrane Library. This library contains several electronic databases most notable of which is the Cochrane Database of Systematic ...

Systematic reviews are comprehensive, structured reviews of the evidence on therapies or diagnostic tests. Learn to use the Cochrane methodology and RevMan software to generate a focused question ...

Cochrane is delighted to announce the publication of the new edition of The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions following extensive revision. Designed for authors and editors of ...

How can we have a rational health service if we don’t know which of the things being done in it are useful and which are useless or possibly even harmful? — Archie Cochrane When Julia Fullerton-Batten ...

Steve McDonald receives research funding from the NHMRC. The Australasian Cochrane Centre is funded by the Department of Health and Aging through the NHMRC. He is a member of the Cochrane ...

Objective Synthesise evidence for effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions following ACL and/or meniscal tear on symptomatic, functional, clinical, psychosocial, quality of life and reinjury ...

There are different methods of reviewing existing research and literature and different definitions of systematic and literature reviews, with some variations between disciplines. For more information ...

Objective To evaluate systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of exercise on general cognition, memory and executive function across all populations and ages. Methods ...

A new chapter addressing issues around intervention complexity, covering interventions with multiple components, interventions in which there are interactions between the intervention and its context, ...