TOBY LASSERSONSENIOR EDITOR

The Cochrane Library and new developments for users

Cochrane Editorial Unit

Cochrane Editorial Unit

The Cochrane Collaboration

International organization supports production & maintenance of Cochrane systematic reviews

Charity & government funding for infrastructure

Activity supports global network of volunteer contributors

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The Cochrane Library

Suite of databases Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Register of controlled trials (CENTRAL) Register of methodological research Abstracts of effectiveness reviews (DARE) HTA database Economic Evaluations (NHS EED) Information about Cochrane entities

Cochrane Editorial Unit

The Cochrane Library

Cochrane Reviews evaluate Effects of healthcare interventions Diagnostic test accuracy & harms Methods used in clinical trials or systematic reviews

Cochrane Editorial Unit

The Cochrane Library

Cochrane Review attributes Independent Methodological rigour Transparent Current Relevant Full-text with structured abstract & plain language

summary Updated to reflect new evidence

How best to develop The Cochrane Library?

Finding information Searching/Browsing

Support disseminationSummary versionsDerivative products

Improve full-text look & navigation, article tools

Full reviews & editorials now organized by theme

Specialty (heart, lungs, wound care etc)

Age (child health)

Diagnostics & Methodology

Predictive text search & synonym search under development

Clinical questions

Answers to important healthcare questions need to be easy to locate Benefits & harms

How much of a difference does an intervention make?

How confident are we in findings?

Does pre-operative washing with chlorhexidine reduce surgical site infections?

Reviews clustered by relevance

What do results mean?

Studies of good quality? Excessive variation between results? Precision of results? Study populations/settings of interest to review

question? Publication bias?

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Future directions

Cochrane PICO or Clinical Answers

Clinical question answering service?

Qualitative & prognostic reviews?

Cochrane for mobile web?

‘I apologize that this letter is so long, I did not have

the time to write a short one’Blaise Pascal (1623-62)