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What are Evidence Based Medicine and Evidence-Informed Health Care?

Evidence Based Medicine is the judicious integration of 1) the best available, current, research evidence about diagnosis, treatment and prevention that is used for the care of individual patients, with 2) clinical expertise in assessing the individual patient’s health status, diagnosis, benefits and risks of interventions, and 3) the patient’s individual values, concerns, expectations and preferences about the care they seek.
Evidence-Informed Health Care seeks to make decisions about the care of individual patients and the delivery of health care that are informed by the current best available and relevant evidence, even if this is not always the best possible, and by available local resources, priorities and values. Read more....


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What are systematic reviews and meta-analyses?

Systematic reviews use explicit and reproducible strategies to provide reliable and unbiased evidence. These include defining and providing details in a protocol and the review about formulating the question in answerable ways; defining strategies and search terms and conducting the search for all relevant studies on the topic that will minimize publication and reporting biases; predefining explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria for including studies and for methods for selecting them; assessing the studies to be included and excluded reliably based on the pre-defined methods, assessing the risk of bias in the design, conduct, interpretation and reporting of studies; methods to combine the results of the similar studies in meaningful ways and to assess the combined results for biases; and finally methods to grade recommendations for clinical practice and policy and specific suggestions to guide further research, if needed. Read more...

What is the Cochrane Collaboration?

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, not-for-profit organization, founded in 1993 and named after the British epidemiologist, Archie Cochrane, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available worldwide. It has over 16,000 contributors, mostly volunteers, in over 100 countries worldwide. It is the world’s largest organization devoted to producing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of interventions and the accuracy of diagnostic tests. Read More...

The South Asian Cochrane Centre

The South Asian Cochrane Centre is located in India at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The Centre is hosted at the Prof. B V Moses and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Advanced Centre for Research and Training in Evidence-Informed Health Care in the Bagayam campus of CMC Vellore. . The South Asian Cochrane Centre is an independent Centre of The Cochrane Collaboration. The Centre is also part of the South Asian Cochrane Network, a devolved network of sites situated at academic health-sciences institutions in India (5), Pakistan (2), Bangladesh (1), and Sri Lanka (1). Each site contributes to and supports the activities of the Network. Read more...