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POSTPONED: 2019 Cochrane Methods Symposium: Developing robust review protocols with increasingly diverse evidence
Update on 30 October 2019: The 2019 Methods Symposium was cancelled as the 2019 Cochrane Colloquium was cancelled. Full details can be found here. We are now considering other options for the 2019 Methods Symposium and updates will be shared when they are avaliable.Co-chairs: Professor Julian Higgins and Dr Joanne McKenzie
What you need to know about the new Cochrane Handbook
Posted on 1 October 2019 by Ella Flemyng (Methods Implementation Coordinator)
CANCELLED: Registration for the Cochrane 2019 Methods Symposium now open!
Posted on 2 September 2019 by Ella Flemyng (Methods Implementation Coordinator)The Cochrane Methods Executive is delighted to invite you to the ‘2019 Methods Symposium: Developing robust review protocols with increasingly diverse evidence’ on Monday 21 October 2019 in Santiago, Chile (day before the Colloquium proper). There is no fee for attending this event. All are welcome, but attendees must register beforehand. 
An Open Letter in Response to the FDA’s Public Comment Request on the Clinical Data Summary Report Pilot
Posted on 22 August 2019 by Ella Flemyng (Methods Implementation Coordinator, Cochrane).Update on 25 September 2019: * a third Cochrane Review that used CSRs was bought to our attention and this has been added to the post.
Featured Methodology Review: Financial conflicts of interest in systematic reviews
Posted on 9 August 2019 (originally posted on Cochrane Community on 7 August 2019).
CONSORT 2010 is extended to cross-over trials
Posted 6 August 2019.The ‘CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised crossover trials’ published last month in The BMJ (the original CONSORT 2010 Statement can be found here). Leading a team of researchers on this work was Dr Kerry Dwan, Statistical Editor from the Cochrane Editorial and Methods Department, who is the first author on the paper.       
Professor Julian Higgins receives award from the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
Re-posted on 26 July 2019 (originally posted on Cochrane Community).
Cochrane Methods Executive seeks nominations for Methods Group Convenor representative
Posted 22 July 2019We seek nominations to a vacant position on the Cochrane Methods Executive, to start in October 2019 at the Santiago Colloquium. Please note the deadline is *Friday 23 August 2019*.
Using Clinical Study Reports as a data source for Cochrane Reviews: consultation meeting report and next steps
Following a consultation meeting on using clinical study reports in Cochrane Reviews, held on 16 May 2019, Ella Flemyng, Methods Implementation Coordinator at Cochrane, shares details and the minutes from the meeting, as well as highlight plans for taking the project forward in Cochrane. 
Update on the implementation of Risk of Bias 2 in Cochrane
Following the development of the Risk of Bias 2 (RoB 2) tool, Cochrane will be rolling it out on new reviews in 2020. Here, Ella Flemyng, Methods Implementation Coordinator at Cochrane, highlights plans for the implementation of RoB 2 in Cochrane. Posted on 21 June 2019.