Cochrane announces funding support for 15 new Cochrane Reviews

In August 2015 the Cochrane Editorial Unit announced the first call for applications to the Cochrane Review Support Programme which was open to all Cochrane Review Groups. We received 32 applications from 21 Groups.  To evaluate the applications we convened an international assessment panel comprising seven Cochrane contributors and consumers of Cochrane Reviews, who generously shared their time and expertise:Hilda Bastian, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USADr Urbà González, Unit of Dermatology, CLĺNICA GO&FER, Barcelona, SpainProf Sally Green, Cochrane Australia, Monash University, Melbourne, AustraliaDr Richard Lehman, Hightown Surgery, Oxford, UKDr Mbah P Okwen, Centre for the Development of Best Practices in Health, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, CameroonDr Sera Tort, Cochrane Editorial Unit, Girona, SpainDr Jorge Zepeda, Secretary of Health of Florianópolis, Brazil / University of Leeds, UKThe panel members assessed the applications according to the criteria outlined in the application form and gave each review an overall score out of 10. The maximum possible score for each review was 70 (10 points x 7 assessors) and we set our funding cut-off at 50+. On that basis there were nine awards of £5,000 to produce single reviews and one award of £10,000 (2 x £5,000) to produce a suite of six reviews. The successful reviews were:Interventions to reduce antibiotic prescri...

Source: Cochrane News and Events - January 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nowens at cochrane.org Source Type: news