School of Nursing , Dublin City University

Cochrane Collaboration in Ireland :
Facilitating Evidence-Based Practice

Room HG23 Thursday 2 February 2006

9:00 am Registration

9:45 am Welcome
Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, President of DCU

10:00 am “How often should you go to the dentist for a check-up?
A practice question becomes a Cochrane review”
Paul Beirne
Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC

10:45 am “The Cochrane Collaboration and the healthcare response to natural disasters: Evidence Aid”
Mike Clarke
Director, UK Cochrane Centre

11:30 am Tea & Coffee Break

12:00 am “Developing the HealthQWest systematic reviewers community:
Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals”
Professor Tracey Howe
Director, HealthQWest: a West of Scotland research consortium

12:45pm Lunch (included in registration fee)

2:00 pm “Impacting practice through qualitative research:
The role of systematic reviews”
Catherine Francis-Baldesari
Lecturer, UK Cochrane Centre

2:45 pm “The HRB Cochrane Fellowship Programme:
How it works and the unexpected spin-offs”
Paul Beirne
HRB Cochrane Fellow 2002-2003

3:30 pm “ Into the future: XIV Cochrane World Colloquium in Dublin , Oct 2006”
Teresa Maguire
Health Research Board

4:00 pm Close (coffee and networking)