Cochrane Mexico ' s ' citizen scientist ' event contributes to global research efforts

Cochrane Crowd is a global community of volunteers who are helping to classify the research needed to support informed decision-making about health care.Cochrane Mexico recently hosted its third screening challenge that helped introduce students to randomized control trials and evidence assessment. This event not only fostered the value of evidence synthesis among students but also made a significant contribution to ongoing global research efforts. The job of the Cochrane Crowd community is to review descriptions of research studies to identify and classify randomized controlled trials (RCTs), a type of study that is considered the gold standard for clinical trials. Reports of RCTs are then fed into Cochrane ’s Central Register of Controlled Trials, helping Cochrane authors and other systematic reviewers quickly find the evidence they need to determine whether a treatment works, or whether a diagnostic test is accurate.Cochrane Mexico student event involved 31 universities   The  Cochrane Mexico Associated Centre atSinaloa ’s Pediatric Hospital,  the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, and theMexican Association of Doctors in Training hosted their third Cochrane Crowd challenge. The first two challenges (held in2018 and2022) were limited to the Autonomous University of Sinaloa ' s students. This year, all Mexican medical schools were invited to participate and two students per university were selected.59 students from 31 universities virtually participated, conduc...
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