Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Contributors
- 1 Introducing evidence-based anaesthesia
- 2 How to define the questions
- 3 Developing a search strategy, locating studies and electronic databases
- 4 Retrieving the data
- 5 Critical appraisal and presentation of study details
- 6 Outcomes
- 7 The meta-analysis of a systematic review
- 8 Bias in systematic reviews: considerations when updating your knowledge
- 9 The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group
- 10 Integrating clinical practice and evidence: how to learn and teach evidence-based medicine
- 11 Involving patients and consumers in health care and decision-making processes: nothing about us without us
- 12 Evidence-based medicine in the Third World
- 13 Preoperative anaesthesia evaluation
- 14 Regional anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia
- 15 Fluid therapy
- 16 Antiemetics
- 17 Anaesthesia for day-case surgery
- 18 Obstetrical anaesthesia
- 19 Anaesthesia for major abdominal and urological surgery
- 20 Anaesthesia for paediatric surgery
- 21 Anaesthesia for eye, ENT and dental surgery
- 22 Anaesthesia for neurosurgery
- 23 Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care
- 24 Postoperative pain therapy
- 25 Critical care medicine
- 26 Emergency medicine: cardiac arrest management, severe burns, near-drowning and multiple trauma
- Glossary of terms
- Index
9 - The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Contributors
- 1 Introducing evidence-based anaesthesia
- 2 How to define the questions
- 3 Developing a search strategy, locating studies and electronic databases
- 4 Retrieving the data
- 5 Critical appraisal and presentation of study details
- 6 Outcomes
- 7 The meta-analysis of a systematic review
- 8 Bias in systematic reviews: considerations when updating your knowledge
- 9 The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group
- 10 Integrating clinical practice and evidence: how to learn and teach evidence-based medicine
- 11 Involving patients and consumers in health care and decision-making processes: nothing about us without us
- 12 Evidence-based medicine in the Third World
- 13 Preoperative anaesthesia evaluation
- 14 Regional anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia
- 15 Fluid therapy
- 16 Antiemetics
- 17 Anaesthesia for day-case surgery
- 18 Obstetrical anaesthesia
- 19 Anaesthesia for major abdominal and urological surgery
- 20 Anaesthesia for paediatric surgery
- 21 Anaesthesia for eye, ENT and dental surgery
- 22 Anaesthesia for neurosurgery
- 23 Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care
- 24 Postoperative pain therapy
- 25 Critical care medicine
- 26 Emergency medicine: cardiac arrest management, severe burns, near-drowning and multiple trauma
- Glossary of terms
- Index
Summary
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of health care interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. The major product of the Collaboration is The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which is published quarterly as part of The Cochrane Library. Those who prepare the reviews are mostly health care professionals who volunteer to work in one of the many Collaborative Review Groups (CRGs), with editorial teams overseeing the preparation and maintenance of the reviews, as well as application of the rigorous quality standards for which Cochrane reviews have become known. In 2000 the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group (CARG) was established and is situated in Copenhagen. The scope covers anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, intensive care medicine, resuscitation and emergency medicine. CARG published 24 reviews in The Cochrane Library, Issue 4, 2005.
What is The Cochrane Collaboration?
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available worldwide. The Cochrane Collaboration is the largest organisation in the world engaged in the preparation and maintenance of systematic reviews.
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- Evidence-based Anaesthesia and Intensive Care , pp. 77 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006