The Cochrane Collaboration
Authors: Aaron Levin
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2001)

Current Clinical Issues21 August 2001The Cochrane CollaborationAaron LevinAaron LevinAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-135-4-200108210-00035 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail "Twenty years ago, you could read all the literature in your field," said reference librarian Kathy Robbins, PhD, MLIS, scanning shelf after shelf of medical journals at the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library in Minneapolis. "Now, 6000 journal articles are published each day."Merely keeping up with this torrent of information in one's own specialty is difficult enough. Synthesizing and applying the knowledge to patient care verges on the impossible without some sort of guidance. Fortunately, this guidance is available.Bringing the fruits of new research to the bedside takes at least four levels of review, said Brian Haynes, MD, ... Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byQuality of evidence of the efficacy of therapeutic interventions on patient-important outcomes in Cochrane's systematic reviews' abstracts: A surveyRisk factors and outcomes of conversion in minimally invasive distal pancreatectomy: a systematic reviewMethodological quality (risk of bias) assessment tools for primary and secondary medical studies: what are they and which is better?Recommendations for enhancing the usability and understandability of process mining in healthcareIdentifying gaps and using evidence-based practices to serve the behavioral health treatment needs of medicaid-insured childrenAn Audit of Literature Reviews Published in Australian Social Work (2007–2017)Rights to social determinants of flourishing? A paradigm for disability and public health research and policyEvidence-making hepatitis C cure: Towards a science that knows more carefullyThe Impact of Evidence-Based Medicine on Qualitative Metasynthesis: Benefits to be Harvested and Warnings to be GivenTime to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?Cochrane in 2017: Opportunities for the research community in ChinaMedical Writing: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysesEvidence-Based Medicine and the Art of MedicineEvidence-Based Medicine and Controversies in Cleft CareThe Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysesTrial Design, Measurement, and Analysis of Clinical InvestigationsThe evidence base of primary research in public health emergency preparedness: a scoping review and stakeholder consultationThe methodological quality assessment tools for preclinical and clinical studies, systematic review and meta-analysis, and clinical practice guideline: a systematic reviewFocus on tissue viabilityMeta-analysis in contextTranslation Through Argumentation in Medical Research and Physician-CitizenshipThe methodological quality of systematic reviews of animal studies in dentistryCurrent Resources for Evidence‐Based Practice March/April 2012Mass spectrometry-based immuno-precipitation proteomics - The user's guideNeurosurgical Epidemiology and Outcomes AssessmentTRIAL DESIGN, MEASUREMENT, AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONSSystematic Review and its Relationship with Evidence-Based Practice in HealthArchie Cochrane and His Vision for Evidence-Based MedicineEvidence-based nursing: clarifying the concepts for nurses in practiceElectronic Health Records and Electronic Prescribing: Promise and PitfallsEntangled evidence: knowledge making in systematic reviews in healthcareThe Increasing Importance of Systematic Reviews in Clinical Dermatology Research and PublicationDESIGN, MEASUREMENT, AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONSWhat is the point of databases of reviews for dermatology if all they compile is "insufficient evidence"?Medical Care DeliveryStandards for Surgical Treatment of Cerebrovascular Disease, Circa 2000Introducing surgeons to the cochrane collaborationMethods of meta-analysis: an analysis 21 August 2001Volume 135, Issue 4Page: 309-312KeywordsBirthCyclic adenosine monophosphateDatabasesEvidence based medicineHealth careInternetLibrariesResearch quality assessmentSystematic reviews ePublished: 21 August 2001 Issue Published: 21 August 2001 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2001 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...