Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study

Comparison of central adjudication of outcomes and onsite outcome assessment on treatment effect estimates

Tuesday 21st June 2016Ahead of Evidence Live (June 22-24th 2016) Tom Jefferson and Kamal Mahtani will be facilitating a workshop on the use of Regulatory Data in syst

ROBINS-I was developed by members of the Cochrane Bias Methods Group and the Cochrane Non-Randomised Studies Methods Group supported by a grant from the Cochrane Methods Innovation Fund (2011).

A 'state of the art' series of open-access papers on the use, impact and reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysis based on individual participant data (IPD) have been published.

The Cochrane Steering Group has approved the registration of a new Rapid Reviews Methods Group.

We are delighted to announce that an overview of the CERQual approach has just been published in PLOS Medicine.Link to paper here

Cochrane Methods is published annually and is a supplement to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Why do we need Evidence-Based Methods in Cochrane Reviews?Professor John Ioannidis from Stanford University presented on "Increasing value, reducing waste in research: a role for meta-epidemiology"

The MIF was established in 2012 to fund methodological research.  Historically the evaluation of research methods is an area which struggles to obtain funding. The 2015 Methods Symposium will spotlight the importance of knowing the uncertainties within and limits of the methods we use so that we can measure how they affect review findings.