Cochrane July - September 2019: Highlights from Q3

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. July to September 2019, was a busy quarter for Cochrane! Here we provide some highlights of the third 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 were deleted to hear thatProfessor Julian Higgins   received the 2019 Extraordinary Service Awardat the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology 2019 Annual Meeting. Julian also has a long-standing history in Cochrane, contributing to the development of methods that are integral to the Reviews Cochrane produces.An article was published inNature, 'Out of date before it ' s published' which looked athow Cochrane is keeping pace with fast-moving research fields. It featured the work of Cochrane to increase the speed and efficiency of Cochrane systematic review production. Another article in theJournal of Orthopaedic& Sports Physical Therapycomparing low back pain systematic review abstracts to their full text. It found that  " Cochrane review abstracts ha...
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