What's new
July 2008: New release - Issue 3, 2008 The Cochrane Library
Read the highlights and listen from the podcasts of the latest issue of The Cochrane Library.
May 2008: Réseau francophone launches website
The Réseau francophone Cochrane (RFC) aims to better serve the needs of French-speaking authors and users of Cochrane reviews. Now, French-speaking people can access Cochrane resource materials translated into French and other Cochrane information on the new RFC website. The RFC is a Branch of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre.
May 2008: Excellence recognized
Nicole Letourneau, a Cochrane network site representative at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), has received a Top 40 Under 40 award which recognizes outstanding young leaders. As a professor of nursing at UNB, Nicole created the Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Studies Program which focuses on postpartum depression, intimate partner violence, parent-child interaction and child development. The team has started a Cochrane review to examine the effect of parenting interventions on children’s behavioural development is part of this Program.
April 2008: New release - Issue 2, 2008 The Cochrane Library
Read the highlights and listen to the podcasts from the latest issue of The Cochrane Library.
April 2008: Co-publishing agreement with CMAJ - attention Cochrane authors!
The CCNC has reached a co-publishing agreement with the Canadian Medical Association Journal for shortened versions of Cochrane reviews. CMAJ is accepting submissions of versions of Cochrane Reviews for simultaneous publication with the release of each issue of the Cochrane Library. These versions should be about 3000 words and will give full reference to the original review published in The Cochrane Library. If you would like more information about the process please click here. If you wish to have your review considered by the CMAJ, please contact Paul Hebert, Editor in Chief with the topic and timelines for your review.
February 2008: CCNC launches petition for national license to The Cochrane Library!
Many countries provide free access to The Cochrane Library for their citizens; however, Canada still lacks a national license to this rich resource. We believe any Canadian should have access to the full contents of The Cochrane Library. For more information or to join our request for funding by signing our petition go to http://nlccl.epetitions.net.
February 2008: Canadian Cochrane Symposium registration deadline
Register by February 15 to attend the 6th Canadian Cochrane Symposium being held in Edmonton March 6-7, 2008. For program and registration details visit www.ccs2008.ca or contact Krystal Harvey (krystal.harvey doesnotexist@cochrane.org ualberta.ca or ).
February 2008: New CCNC affiliate member
CCNC is very pleased to announce that the Evidence Based Practice Group, Clinical Services of WorkSafeBC has accepted our invitation to become a new affiliate member. Through active partnerships and knowledge transfer activities, we work with our affiliates to promote the awareness, understanding and use of Cochrane reviews by their members.
February 2008: New Research-to-policy database
Looking for Cochrane reviews relevant to how health care is delivered and organized? A new database of Cochrane and other systematic reviews related to the governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems is now available at www.researchtopolicy.ca/search/reviews.aspx. This initiative is the result of a partnership between CCNC and the Program in Policy Decision-Making at McMaster University.
January 2008: New release - Issue 1, 2008 The Cochrane Library
The latest issue of The Cochrane Library includes new reviews related to low back pain, anti-smoking strategies and the prevention of MSRA infections. For news releases and podcasts about other reviews visit www.thecochranelibrary.org
January 2008: Occupational therapists now have full access to The Cochrane Library
The Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists is pleased to announce that members have full access to The Cochrane Library. Occupational therapists work to enable participation in valued activities such as work, self-care and leisure. Members will benefit from access to occupational therapy-specific reviews as well as reviews from many of the Cochrane Groups.
January 2008: Rx for Change - Improving drug prescribing practices
How to change people’s behaviour is often more of a challenge than determining what is effective in practice. Rx for Change is a new searchable database of key findings from Cochrane and other systematic reviews of behaviour-change strategies that promote the optimal use of medicines by both practitioners and patients. This database is available through a joint collaboration of the Canadian Optimal Medication Prescribing and Utilization Service (COMPUS) and Cochrane Groups.
January 2008: New Cochrane websites from Canada
The Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group recently re-launched its website at www.epoc.cochrane.org. EPOC reviews focus on strategies to improve health professional practice and the organization of health care services. Topics include continuing education; informatics; financial, organizational and regulatory practices; changes in who delivers health care, how care is organized or where care is delivered.
The Cochrane Health Equity Field recently launched its first website. Concerned with inequities in health, people in this Field encourage Cochrane reviewers to examine the effects of interventions not only on the whole population, but upon disadvantaged people. Topics include methodologies for reviews of interventions to reduce inequities and priority-setting for low- and middle-income countries.
December 2007: Cochrane newsletter
The latest issue of Cochrane News, the international newsletter of The Cochrane Collaboration, is now available at www.cochrane.org/newslett/index.htm.
November 2007: Co-publishing agreement with CMAJ
Canadian physicians will soon have easier access to relevant Cochrane reviews. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and the publishers of The Cochrane Library, John Wiley & Sons, have agreed to the simultaneous release of selected Cochrane reviews in a more readable format. CMAJ will publish a 3000 word version of selected Cochrane systematic reviews on the publication date of the full review in The Cochrane Library.
November 2007: Free Cochrane Library access in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotians can now access The Cochrane Library for free through their public libraries or remotely through library websites with a valid library card. The Atlantic Health Knowledge Partnership, an association between health and academic libraries and Nova Scotia's public libraries was instrumental in this initiative. Although health practitioners in Nova Scotia have had access to The Cochrane Library since 2005, it was through a cumbersome password system. To login go to: https://sapps.ednet.ns.ca/cochranelogin/index2.html.
October 2007: Abstracts are now being accepted until November 30 for the 2008 Canadian Cochrane Symposium - Big Sky, New Horizons for Systematic Reviews in Health Care. The Canadian Cochrane Child Health Field Centre, in coordination with the University of Alberta Cochrane Network site is hosting this Symposium in Edmonton on 6-7 March 2008. Pre-symposium workshops include Review author training and RevMan 5 training. Visit www.ccs2008.ca or contact Krystal Harvey (krystal.harvey doesnotexist@cochrane.org ualberta.ca or ) for details.
August 2007: The latest issue of Cochrane News, the international newsletter of The Cochrane Collaboration, is now available at www.cochrane.org/newslett/index.htm.
July 2007: How can I stop smoking? The Cochrane Library can help
Do you know someone struggling with the challenges of trying to stop smoking? The Cochrane Library has evidence that can help. A list of Cochrane reviews that assess different ways of helping people quit smoking have been compiled on the website of The Cochrane Library. They review the effectiveness of a range of strategies.
For example, one systematic review shows how nicotine patches can double the odds of successful quitting. Another concludes that the antidepressants bupropion and nortriptyline aid long-term smoking cessation, but selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (e.g. fluoxetine) do not.
For more details visit:
Wiley pressroom
Smoking cessation press release
July 2007: Cochrane increases support for French-speaking community
The CCNC is pleased to announce the official registration of the Réseau francophone Cochrane (RFC) as a Branch of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. The primary goal of the Réseau is to better serve the needs of French-speaking authors and users of Cochrane reviews. We hope that the support from the Réseau will make it easier for French-speaking people to become involved in producing and advocating for Cochrane and Cochrane Systematic reviews. Dr Bernard Burnand and Myriam Rège Walther of the Health Care Evaluation Unit at the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland are leading the new Branch. For more information contact info doesnotexist@cochrane.org res-franco-cochrane.org or myriam.rege doesnotexist@cochrane.org chuv.ch
June 2007: CCNC releases annual report
View the latest annual report from the CCNC.
April 2007: Canadian dentists can now access The Cochrane Library
The Canadian Dental Association (CDA) recently announced that it has secured access to the Cochrane library through their website for all members and staff. “The Association feels that access to Cochrane reviews is an important way for the Association to support evidence informed practice for dentists in Canada,” comments Dr. Euan Swan, the CDA affiliate representative to the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. The CCNC continues to partner with the CDA to identify additional ways to communicate the results of reviews that may impact dental practice.
March 2007: Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews
Clear, transparent reporting of systematic reviews is important so readers know if the methodology is sound and the results are reliable. This study reports the results of a search for systematic reviews indexed in Medline in November 2004. Of the 300 reviews found, nearly half were Cochrane reviews. In general, the authors found superior reporting standards of Cochrane reviews compared to non-Cochrane therapeutic ones.
February 2007: A successful Symposium!
The 5th Canadian Cochrane Symposium: Knowledge for Health was a great success with the largest turnout yet for this Symposium. Thank you to everyone who helped to make it happen and to all the participants from across Canada and internationally - we couldn't have done it without you!
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