2019 Cochrane-REWARD Prize winners announced

We are pleased to announce the winners – one first place and two runners-up – of this year’s Cochrane-REWARD Prize. The Cochrane-REWARD Prize recognizes successful local or pilot initiatives that have potential to reduce research waste globally if scaled up. Cochrane has funded the prize annually since it began in 2017.The prize ceremony took place on Wednesday 9 October at the International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference in Brighton, UK. Dr Joan Marsh, Deputy Editor of The Lancet Psychiatry and member of the prize committee, was there to hand out the prizes. During the conference, each recipient also had the opportunity to present about their initiative in a session dedicated to research waste.First prize: Trial ForgeThis year ’s first prize went toTrial Forge, an initiative established in 2015 to address evidence gaps in how randomized trials are designed – and, in doing so, improve trial efficiency.So far, Trial Forge has focused on:Raising awareness of the lack of evidence for optimal trial processes,Prioritization of unanswered research questions in recruitment and retention,Establishing Studies Within A Trial (SWATs) as a central method for generating evidence about more effective trial processes.Trial Forge is a collaboration coordinated from the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen – with Trial Forge Centres in the UK and Switzerland, and plans to expand this network. Outreach to the research community, both face-to-face and ...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - Category: Information Technology Authors: Source Type: news