What is a Cochrane review protocol?
A: According to Cochrane a protocol is a plan or set of steps to be followed in a study. A Cochrane Review is a systematic, up-to-date summary of reliable evidence of the benefits and risks of health care. Cochrane Reviews are intended to help people make practical decisions.
What Cochrane means?
Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy, and are internationally recognised as the highest standard in evidence-based health care.
What are the four major types of reviews?
Over the years, numerous types of literature reviews have emerged, but the four main types are traditional or narrative, systematic, meta-analysis and meta-synthesis.
What makes a Cochrane review?
Reviewers systematically search for all evidence related to clinical questions; reports of randomized controlled trials involving human subjects are critically evaluated to enable the reader to quickly determine if the findings apply to a particular patient.
Are Cochrane reviews gold standard?
Cochrane Reviews are recognized internationally as representing a gold standard for high-quality, trusted information, and are published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, one of the databases within the Cochrane Library.
Are Cochrane reviews reliable?
Our experience confirms that most Cochrane reviews are of a good standard. This is a considerable achievement, especially given the unpaid and voluntary nature of the work. The regularly updated electronic publication and the comments and criticisms facility offer great advantages.
What is a Cochrane meta analysis?
Meta-analysis is a statistical technique for combining data from multiple studies on a particular topic. Meta-analyses play a fundamental role in evidence-based healthcare. Since then, they have become a common way for synthesizing evidence and summarizing the results of individual studies (2).
How do you write a Cochrane Review?
How do I get started?
- Decide on your topic for a review.
- Make sure your proposal does not duplicate any work already published or registered with Cochrane.
- Identify a team of authors for your review.
- Identify the CRG that is most relevant to your topic of interest.
- Make contact with the CRG.
How many types of Cochrane reviews are currently available?
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is updated every quarter to include new Cochrane reviews, as well as those that have been updated. Currently, there are more than 1600 Cochrane reviews and 1200 protocols for reviews in progress in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.