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Featured review: Adding indoor residual spraying in communities using insecticide‐treated nets for the prevention of malaria
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マラリア予防のために殺虫剤処理された蚊帳を使用しているコミュニティに屋内残留噴霧を追加すること
COVID-19のパンデミックを抑制するために学校現場で実施された対策
What's the accuracy of crowdsourcing the screening of search results? Help Cochrane find out!
Cochrane Crowd is a citizen science platform where a global community of volunteers help to classify the research needed to support informed decision-making about healthcare. Cochrane Crowd volunteers review descriptions of research studies to identify and classify clinical trials.
A new task has just gone live on Cochrane Crowd. It is a citation screening task that we are doing in partnership with The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute).
It forms a part of a methodological study that aims to assess the accuracy of crowdsourcing the screening of search results. Unlike some of the previous studies we’ve done, this one is a little bit different. Instead of asking you to assess a record for possible relevance, we want you to assess it for irrelevance! Our hypothesis is that a crowd can still make a big difference in weeding out the obviously irrelevant records, and that by framing the task in this way, we will reduce the chances of possibly relevant records being rejected.
Are you up for joining this task? If so, head to crowd.cochrane.org and log in. On your tasks page you should see a task called: Training for healthcare professionals in electronic fetal monitoring using cardiotocograph.
We are going to run this study as a randomised study. When you click on the training module, you will be randomised to one of three tasks. Each of the three tasks will look exactly the same. The difference between the three tasks is the agreement algorithm in the background. This algorithm provides a ‘final’ classification on a record based on a certain number and order of individual classifications made by contributors. We are testing three different agreement algorithms as part of this methodological study.
There is of course a training module. It should only take around 10-15 minutes to complete. Once done you will be able to screen some ‘real’ records. Do as many as you like. If you manage to do 250 or more, you will get named acknowledgement in any write-ups of this methods study and be able to download a certificate.
As always, this kind of work would not be possible without the help of this fantastic community. If you are able to take part, then thank you very much indeed from the teams at THIS Institute and Cochrane Crowd.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me: anna.noel-storr@rdm.ox.ac.uk
With best wishes to all and happy citation screening!
Anna and Sarah
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Cochrane seeks Chief Executive Officer
Location: UK based role with occasional global travel
Salary: £110-120,000 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Date closing: 06/02/2022
Cochrane is a global independent community of more than 100,000 people who search for and summarize the best evidence from health and care research to help our beneficiaries make informed choices about health and care.
Our members and supporters come from more than 220 countries worldwide including researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, and people passionate about improving health and care outcomes for everyone, everywhere.
Chief Executive
£110, 120,000 per annum
UK based role with occasional global travel
Cochrane’s work providing accessible, credible information to improve global health - has never been more important or relevant than it is today.
This Chief Executive role is an extraordinary opportunity for an inspirational, experienced and authentic leader, passionate about evidence and health care, to join Cochrane and work with a highly committed and engaged Board and talented staff team to lead the development of a new long-term strategy.
We are seeking someone with experience working in a multi-stakeholder environment, ideally in a global context, with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with proven capacity to develop influential internal and external relationships. Thoughtful, curious, and with a supportive leadership style; you will bring a strong track record of leading teams; fostering a high-performing culture; driving organisational change and growing income. Critically, you will share our vision of a world of better health for all people where decisions about health and care are informed by high-quality evidence.
Cochrane is a global community and we value the diverse range of experience that this brings. We strive to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome application from people from all races, religions, genders, sexual orientation, lived experience or ability.
- For further information, the role and how to apply please download the full appointment brief here
- Closing Date: Sunday 6th February 2022
- If you require this document in an alternative format, please contact executiveadmin@prospect-us.co.uk or call 020 7691 1920
Research Integrity: making sure medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real
Senior Research Integrity Editor, Lisa Bero, discusses this subject in a recent Nature article.
Never has it been more important to foster trust in scientific evidence than in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Cochrane is committed to independence, transparency, and integrity in healthcare research. The Research Integrity Team works to support and strengthen this commitment through research, policy development and implementation, advocacy and community outreach.
Recently, Senior Research Integrity Editor, Lisa Bero, has written a World View in Nature on the topic of working together to tackle the issue of problematic studies – studies where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings. In the article she explains the tools and resources Cochrane uses as described in its policy for ‘Managing potentially problematic studies’, to empower reviewers to act when they suspect an issue.
Research Integrity Editor, Stephanie Boughton, says “It was great to highlight Cochrane’s leading work in this area. We are building upon Cochrane’s strong history of conducting meta-research to detect research integrity problems. I hope all systematic review authors take up Lisa’s call to action and use tools described in Cochrane’s policy for ‘Managing potential problematic studies’ when they suspect an issue.”
Wednesday, January 19, 2022透析治療を受けている成人のための運動トレーニング
多巣性運動ニューロパチーに対する免疫グロブリン療法
高血圧予防に対するカルシウム補充
Cochrane UK seeks a Transition Support Project Manager
Specifications: Part Time, 1 day per week
Location: UK based (remote)
Application Closing Date: 25 January 2022
Cochrane UK is seeking a dynamic, self-motivated Transition Support Project Manager to lead and manage a support service for UK-based Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs) and those who work with them during a period of transition to a new review production model.
You will join a small and friendly team at Cochrane UK and will work closely with the UK-based CRGs, Cochrane’s Editorial and Methods Department (EMD) and Cochrane Support Service to develop and operate processes to minimize disruption during the transition period.
You will have in-depth knowledge and understanding of the existing Cochrane publication model and editorial processes. You will have experience of the processes involved in conducting and editing systematic reviews and submitting funding bids. You will have excellent communication and project management skills with the ability to build effective stakeholder relationships.
The role will be for 1 day per week with the potential to increase if, and when, the requirements of the project change over the next 12 months.
This role can be arranged either as a secondment (with your employer’s permission) or with you working as a self-employed contractor.
If you would like more information please contact Therese Docherty, Business & Programme Manager (therese.docherty@cochrane.nhs.uk) for the full job description and person specification.
Deadline for applications: 25 January 2022.
Monday, January 10, 2022 Category: JobsCochrane seeks Project Manager
Specifications: Full Time
Salary: £42,000 per annum
Location: UK based (remote)
Application Closing Date: 31 January 2022
Cochrane is a global independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making the vast amounts of evidence generated through research useful for informing decisions about health. We do this by identifying, appraising and synthesizing individual research findings to produce the best available evidence on what can work, what might harm and where more research is needed.
A Project Manager role has become available to support the Evidence Production and Methods Department (EPM), Publishing and Technology department (P&T), Cochrane Library Product Manager and other Central Executive Teams (CET) in delivering on high priority projects: to project manage the highest priority EPM, P&T and other Cochrane projects where appropriate.
- For further information on the role and how to apply, please click here.
- The supporting statement should indicate why you are applying for the post, and how far you meet the requirements, using specific examples.
- Note that we will assess applications as they are received, and therefore may fill the post before the deadline.
- Deadline for applications: Monday 31 January 2022 (12 midnight GMT).