Cochrane Collaboration in Ireland - What Is Cochrane?

Cochrane Collaboration in Ireland

What is Cochrane?

School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University

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The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and makes those reviews available as The Cochrane Library. Since 2002, all this information has been available free of charge throughout the island of Ireland via the Internet through an initiative co-funded by the Health Research Board (HRB) and the Research and Development Office (RDO) in Northern Ireland.

The Cochrane Library provides a wealth of information to assist healthcare professionals make evidence based decisions. The information is also available in non-technical summaries for patients.

Evidence-based practice is one area of research interest at the DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences. An annual interdisciplinary conference rotates between DCU and Queen's University Belfast. Here we explore issues in evidence-based practice of relevance to healthcare professionals in practice and research. The conference brings together academic and practice-based professionals, researchers and librarians. The latest developments are discussed and opportunity provided to network with others in Ireland with similar interests in improving care through evidence.

To join an email discussion forum on Cochrane in Ireland, go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ALL-IRELAND-COCHRANE-EGROUP

For further information on the Cochrane in Ireland conference, contact:

Dónal O'Mathúna, Ph.D., School of Nursing and Human Sciences, DCU.
email: donal.omathuna@dcu.ie or Tel. +353 (0)1 700 7808