Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung: a new era for evidence-based health care in Germany

Cochrane Germany is delighted to announce the official launch of a new Foundation securing the future of using high-quality information to promote health decision-making in Germany.Today sees the opening ceremony of the Cochrane Germany Foundation, (Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung, CDS), which was established in November 2017 by the Medical Center at the University of Freiburg.The Cochrane Germany Foundation is an exciting collaboration betweenCochrane Germany, The Medical Center at the University of Freiburg and the Federal Ministry of Health which will secure future institutional funding for Cochrane ’s work for at least the next ten years, and is one of its kind world-wide.The Cochrane Germany Foundation will promote evidence-based health decision making by supporting and training new authors of Cochrane Reviews, as well as working with clinicians, professional associations, policy-makers, patients, and the media to encourage the dissemination and use of Cochrane evidence.The Foundation is part of Cochrane, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health. Cochrane works with collaborators from more than 130 countries and in 14 languages to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest.  Cochrane’s work is recognized as representing an international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.Speaking last November, Germany ’s...
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