Editorials
Systematic reviews and uncertainties about the effects of treatments, by Sir Iain Chalmers
- By: Sir Iain Chalmers
- On: May 12, 2010, 09:00
One of the common criticisms made of The Cochrane Collaboration is that most of its reviews don’t end with clear instructions for action by professionals, patients and policymakers. Since its inception, however, the Collaboration has made it clear that research evidence isn’t everything. Other factors need to be taken into account when people decide what action – if any – is needed when making treatment and policy decisions...
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Challenges for Medical Journals
- By: Harold C. Sox, Mark Helfand, Jeremy Grimshaw, Kay Dickersin, the PLoS Medicine Editors, David Tovey, J. André Knottnerus, Peter Tugwell
- On: April 27, 2010, 22:00
In order to optimize health outcomes within the constraints of inevitably limited resources, low- and high-income countries alike require unbiased means of assessing health care interventions for their relative effectiveness. Such interventions include diagnostic tests and treatments (both established and newly developed) and implementation of health policy...
Asthma challenges: the place of inhaled long-acting beta-agonists
- By: David Tovey
- On: April 14, 2010, 08:00
"Inadequate control despite regular treatment with inhaled corticosteroids." It’s a scenario repeated all over the world in surgeries and outpatients departments, anywhere where people with asthma are routinely treated. Health professional and patients are faced with a familiar problem: increase the dose of corticosteroids or add a new agent, such as an inhaled long-acting beta-agonist (LABA). Which is best?...
The Cochrane Library is changing
- By: David Tovey
- On: March 17, 2010, 09:00
With the launch of this, the new homepage of The Cochrane Library, we reach a landmark in the programme of activities aimed at improving the presentation of Cochrane Reviews to our audience. Our “web programme” aims to ensure that The Cochrane Library is a website built around the needs and preferences of its users...
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