Brief information on Cochrane Library Sector of Evidence Based Healthcare, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ministry of Health Malaysia
Agenda What’s Cochrane? What is the Cochrane Library? Using the Cochrane Library Access Browsing Basic search
What is Cochrane? An international collaboration of over 50,000 researchers and health professionals passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere Their overall objective is to ensure that the treatments used every day around the world, are based on the best possible knowledge , which is independently assessed and quality checked They have been doing this for 29 years (since 1993)
What is the Cochrane Library? A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making
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What’s in the Cochrane Library Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) Cochrane Clinical Answers Systematic Reviews from Epistemonikos Editorials Special Collections Health Systems Evidence (HSE) and Social Systems Evidence (SSE) created by McMaster’s University All content accessible through a single search
Access to Cochrane Library Database: Access to Cochrane Library Database through: NIH Library ; or Directly go to Cochrane Library by key in Cochrane http://www.cochranelibrary.com/ Free in Malaysia
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Library NIH Homepage Access to Cochrane Library Database through: NIH Library : Look for subscribed databases, then click Cochrane Library logo.
Cochrane Library Homepage Basic Search on Cochrane Library Homepage: By key in at the search box , or Click advanced searc h (using PICO)
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