Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane ’s citizen science platform, breaks records in Mexico

Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane ’s citizen science platform, is a global community of volunteers who are helping to classify the research needed to support informed decision-making about health care.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 around the world quickly find the evidence they need to determine whether a treatment works, or whether a diagnostic test is accurate.A challenge held in partnership with the Cochrane Associated Centre at Sinaloa ’s Pediatric Hospital (Mexico) and the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (Mexico) recently broke all previously held challenge records. Giordano Perez-Gaxiola, director of Cochrane Mexico and key challenge organiser said; " I had run a couple of small challenges throughCochrane Classmate with my students in the past year. I thought it was a simple way to motivate them to learn what Cochrane is, what a clinical trial is, and how an easy-to-use platform like Cochrane Crowd could help them learn. A couple of months ago I had a meeting with the dean of the medical faculty of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (Universidad Aut ónoma de Sinaloa, UAS), Dr. Gerardo Alapizco, to discuss how the university and our Cochrane ...
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