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The Cochrane Collaboration and the process of systematic reviewing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Clive Adams  and
Karla Soares
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In 1979 Archie Cochrane, a British epidemiologist, stated that:

“it is surely a great criticism of our profession that we have not organised a critical summary, by specialty or subspecialty, adapted periodically, of all relevant randomized controlled trials.”

Cochrane, 1979

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , July 1997 , pp. 240 - 246
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1997 

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