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Editorial: Achieving sustainable healthcare through deprescribing
A new Cochrane Library Editorial has been published about the overtreatment with multiple medications and potentially inappropriate medications use in frail, older adults, and people with multimorbidity.
The editorial introduces the Cochrane Library Special Collection on deprescribing which provides a summary of Cochrane Reviews on the topic. This collection of reviews highlight that deprescribing is likely feasible and safe and can lead to benefits in prescribing and clinical outcomes. However, they also highlight significant gaps in the literature and methodological challenges to both conducting deprescribing studies and systematic reviews of deprescribing. The editorial calls on the deprescribing research field to focus on universally accepted standards, definitions, and checklists and work collaboratively with Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022Featured review: Survivor, family and professional experiences of interventions for sexual abuse and violence
Mental health support in the community for refugee children and adolescents in high-income countries
性的虐待と性暴力に対する介入に関するサバイバー、家族、専門家の体験談
心臓と血管(心血管)の病気を予防するための慢性的歯肉炎症(歯周炎)の治療
抗精神病薬と併用して投与される薬剤は統合失調症患者における体重増加の予防にどの程度有効か?
腎不全患者における動静脈瘻成熟に上肢運動プログラムは有効か?
Recording: 2022 Cochrane Lecture with Jimmy Volmink
In November 2022 Jimmy Volmink, the 'father of evidence-based medicine in Africa' and dedicated Cochrane member was the speaker for the 2022 Cochrane Lecture.
Cochrane Lectures provide a forum for influential thinkers to deliver thought-provoking talks on the key challenges for the future Evidence-Based Medicine.
Cochrane’s vision is for a world in which “decisions about health and care are informed by high-quality evidence.” As a trusted source of evidence, the organisation is making a substantial contribution to the realisation of this ideal. Yet, more can be done to extend Cochrane’s global reach, and enhance its relevance and impact worldwide. In this year’s Cochrane Lecture, Professor James "Jimmy" Volmink called for the adoption of global health equity as a strategic priority for Cochrane, and explored ways this can be actioned through steps such as prioritising review topics, enabling participation and promoting diversity and inclusion.
Professor Volmink, the founding Director of the South African Cochrane Centre has a lifelong unwavering commitment to keep on 'banging the drum about inequality' to affect real change. Jimmy reflects on his personal and professional journey in this 'Recommended Dose' podcast.
Thursday, December 1, 2022National Eye Institute Awards $5 Million for Cochrane Eyes and Vision US Project
The award supports critical research to help identify treatments to improve the lives of people suffering from debilitating eye diseases.
The National Eye Institute (NEI) has awarded a $5 million grant to Tianjing Li, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, in a continuation of the NEI’s support of the Cochrane Eyes and Vision US Satellite (CEV US Satellite) at the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center.
The award is one of the largest grants the CU Department of Ophthalmology has received from the NEI and ensures the project will remain on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus for the next five years.
“We are very grateful for NEI’s continued support in the research we are doing,” says Li. “It will help us grow new partnerships, produce trustworthy evidence, and ultimately improve the vision care our patients receive.”
The Cochrane Eyes and Vision (CEV) US Satellite is a team of US-based researchers and practitioners who review medical literature for content covering interventions to prevent or treat eye conditions and visual impairments and to help people adjust to visual impairment or blindness. CEV is a member review group of the Cochrane US Network, which formed in 2019. Cochrane Senior Officer Tiffany Duque states "this grant is an exciting achievement for the US Network, and we thank Dr. Li for her continued efforts and dedication not only to CEV but also to the US Network. We look forward to the high-quality evidence that will result from this grant, and to engaging other US Cochrane Centers in ensuring national dissemination of this important work."
“Cochrane systematic reviews are published in the Cochrane Library, which contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform health care decision-making,” says Li, principal investigator for the CEV US Satellite. “These reviews are valuable sources of information for those receiving and providing care, as well as for policymakers and researchers. Our reviews have been highly cited by national and international practice guidelines.”
Although the reviews are written for health care professionals, each review can also help to assist patients and the public in making informed health care decisions. Topics for reviews are identified based on gaps in the literature, importance of the topics to influence practice, and from interest and suggestions of patients and experts in the field. Once a review topic has been identified, Li’s team works with eye doctors to produce the review, which is then peer reviewed and ultimately published in the Cochrane Library.
“We are very proud of the program Dr. Tianjing Li has built here in the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center,” says Naresh Mandava, MD, chair of the CU Department of Ophthalmology and Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Endowed Chair in Retinal Diseases. “Evidence-based medicine is critical to our understanding of disease and identifying effective therapies that will ultimately improve the lives of people suffering from debilitating eye diseases. The Cochrane project centered here at CU leads the way in this endeavor and we appreciate the National Eye Institute’s continued support of this important work.”
The project’s mission to promote informed health care decision-making and research is critical amid the current climate of increasing health care disparities and growth of health care misinformation from online sources.
“Vision health care should be based on science,” Li says. “In this era of data deluge, evidence-informed practice is needed more than ever.”
Since 2002, the CEV US Satellite has published more than 120 systematic reviews and more than 90 methodological papers and book chapters. The project has also trained more than 120,000 individuals in methods for systematic reviews and has informed hundreds of clinical practice guidelines in the United States and internationally.
自閉スペクトラム症と診断された就学前の子どものうち、1年以上経っても診断が継続するのはどの程度の割合なのか?
脳卒中患者の日常生活動作に対する反復末梢磁気刺激(repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation:rPMS)
多嚢胞性卵巣症候群の女性における不妊治療で用いるアロマターゼ阻害薬
デクスラゾキサン(dexrazoxane)はアントラサイクリン(anthracyclines)を使用している成人および小児のがん患者の心臓障害を予防または軽減できるか?
Cochrane seeks Publishing Systems Support Specialist
Location: Flexible location (remote working) – contract type dependent on location.
Specifications: Permanent employment contract if successful applicant based in UK, Germany or Denmark. Consultancy contract in other locations.
Salary: £36,000 per annum
Application Closing Date: 18 October 2022
Cochrane is a charity and a global, independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making vast amounts of research evidence useful for informing decisions about health. They do this by synthesising research findings to produce the best available evidence on what works. Their work has been recognised as the international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.
The core purpose of this role is to ensure that Cochrane systems are presented coherently to our users, are well-documented, tested, fit for purpose and that the user voice is heard in system development decision-making.
You will:
- provide second-line expert support on software used by Cochrane authors and staff to write and edit Cochrane Reviews:
- Editorial Manager (third-party software from Aries Systems)
- project management features in RevMan Web (in-house review development software)
- act as System Administrator for these systems, making configuration changes to optimise user experience
- update supporting documentation and run demos to educate users on system configurations
- input into projects and programmes of work which impact on Cochrane authors and staff
- represent the user voice in system development, based on feedback received from support cases and training
- use your knowledge to influence development priorities and project decisions that have an impact on system users
Cochrane welcomes applications from a wide range of perspectives, experiences, locations and backgrounds; diversity, equity and inclusion are key to their values.
How to apply
- For further information on the role and how to apply, please click here.
- The deadline to receive your application is by 18 October 2022.
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Cochrane seeks Publishing Operations Manager
Specifications: Permanent
Salary: £45,000 per annum
Location: UK
Application Closing Date: 9 October 2022
Cochrane is a charity and a global, independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making vast amounts of research evidence useful for informing decisions about health. They do this by synthesising research findings to produce the best available evidence on what works. Their work has been recognised as the international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.
Cochrane is seeking a Publishing Operations Manager who will work with the technology vendors, the Head of Cochrane Library and Senior Editor (Publishing Operations) to ensure that Cochrane content is processed on time and to the desired specifications, and that any necessary development work or dependencies for new content types or workflows are captured and resolved.
Cochrane welcomes applications from a wide range of perspectives, experiences, locations and backgrounds; diversity, equity and inclusion are key to their values.
How to apply
- For further information on the role and how to apply, please click here.
- The deadline to receive your application is by 9 October 2022.
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Monday, September 26, 2022 Category: Jobs