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Winding back the harms of too much medicine
Internationally respected author and journalist Ray Moynihan has been writing about the business of medicine for almost two decades. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Bond University, and helping organise a series of conferences called Preventing Overdiagnosis, the next coming up at Oxford University this September. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - February 28, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane Reviews Evidence-based health care Source Type: blogs

#CochraneTech: Mapping the future of Cochrane technology
Chris Mavergames is Head of Cochrane’s Informatics and Knowledge Management Department (IKMD), and has been working on Cochrane web and technology projects since 2006. In his latest post for the Cochrane Blog, Chris updates on current work and future plans in the areas of technology and innovation within and outside Cochrane. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - February 18, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Scholarships & awards Source Type: blogs

Lessons in disappointment and some New Year’s resolutions
Sarah Chapman is an Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre, where her work focuses on encouraging engagement with Cochrane evidence, particularly via social media and through writing  blogs for Evidently Cochrane. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - January 9, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane contributors Cochrane Reviews Evidence-based health care Source Type: blogs

The Trial Blazers study: crowdsourcing and Cochrane
Anna Noel-Storr joined Cochrane in February 2008 as the Trials Search Co-ordinator (TSC) for the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group. She still holds this position, but is also seconded one day a week to the Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS) support team and works on a number of other projects, including the EMBASE project. She is also a member of the TSC executive committee. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - January 6, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Authors Cochrane contributors Cochrane Reviews Prizes & Awards Review groups Websites Source Type: blogs

Celebrating 20 years at the Québec Colloquium
Marilyn Walsh is a Canadian consumer reviewer with the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group and is involved with the Canadian Spondylitis Association-Ontario Chapter and Canadian Patient Partners in Arthritis. Here she reflects on her recent experiences at the 2013 Cochrane Colloquium in Québec City.Cross-posted from the Cochrane Consumer Blog read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - November 4, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: 20th Anniversary Issue 51 Colloquium Consumer Network Source Type: blogs

What is a good topic for a Cochrane Review? What is a “real uncertainty”?
Mona Nasser is a Clinical Lecturer in Evidence Based Dentistry with Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry and affiliated researcher with the Cognition Institute (Plymouth University). In The Cochrane Collaboration, she is co-convenor of the Cochrane Agenda and Priority Setting Methods Group and represents authors on the Collaboration’s Steering Group. Her main research interests are around systematic reviews, research priority setting methodology and clinical decision making in the dental environment. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - September 10, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Authors Cochrane contributors Cochrane Reviews Evidence-based health care Source Type: blogs

Impact Factors and tennis
David Tovey is the Editor in Chief of The Cochrane Library, and has been working with the Collaboration in this role since 2009. Gavin Stewart works with Wiley Publishing as Associate Editor for The Cochrane Library. In this post, they discuss the annual release of the Journal Impact Factor and its ramifications for the work of producing Cochrane Reviews. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - August 13, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Cochrane Library Cochrane Reviews Source Type: blogs

Is there value in making author contact when determining risk of bias in a Cochrane Systematic Review?
Helen Atherton is a Research Fellow in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, and a Cochrane author with the Consumers and Communication Review Group. She is a health services researcher and her main research interest is in eHealth, particularly the use of information and communitcations technology (ICT) in healthcare delivery. In this post she discusses the value of author contact in assessing risk of bias of studies included in Cochrane Reviews. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - July 23, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Authors Cochrane Reviews Source Type: blogs