Cochrane April - June 2019: Highlights from Q2

Cochrane is for anyone interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. Whether you are a doctor or nurse, patient or carer, researcher or funder, Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance your healthcare knowledge and decision making. Our mission is to promote evidence-informed health decision-making by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence. April to June 2019, was a busy quarter for Cochrane! Here we provide some highlights of the second quarter of the year.Cochrane produces high-quality, relevant, up-to-datesystematic reviews, and other synthesized research evidence to inform health decision making. This quarter we released anew video that helps to explain the work of Cochrane.David Tovey, our Cochrane Editor in Chief stepped down after 10 years of service. Heshared his reflections on his time with Cochrane   and also wrote aCochrane Library Editorial. We warmly welcomed the  appointment of a new Editor in Chief for the Cochrane Library;Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser.This quarter, we also released aCochrane Library Special Collection: Reducing pain in infants, children, and adolescents.The Collection, brought together the latest evidence for paediatric treatments for acute and chronic pain, to guide practice, policy, and funding. Along with the relatedCochrane Editorial, it highlighted the need for more research in this area.    Cochrane strives to produce evidence that is ac...
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