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Free access to The Cochrane Library for all people in Pakistan up to November 2010

As part of the Evidence Aid programme, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,  have granted all people in Pakistan access to all databases in The Cochrane Library, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, up to November 2010.


Evidence Aid special collection: evidence summaries to help rehabilitation efforts in areas affected by floods 

Water safety and water related diseases:

A collection of evidence summaries based on systematic reviews from The Cochrane Collaboration. Where available, a link is provided to Evidence Update summaries

These include evidence summaries on the following themes:

• Water-related diseases caused by faecal pollution: general diarrhoea prevention, management, & treatment
• Water-related diseases caused by faecal pollution: sorted by disease
• Water-related diseases caused by water-based insect vectors
• Skin, eye, & louse-borne diseases that can occur when there is a lack of water for personal hygiene 
• Water-related diseases caused by urine of certain mammals

Other Evidence Summaries from The Cochrane Collaboration

Neglected Tropical Diseases

A collection of reviews from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group and the Cochrane Skin Group

Additional Resources and Guidelines

Links to websites of resources likely to be of use in disaster relief (courtesy the Evidence Aid team and collaborators)


Workshops

Systematic Review Completion and Review Update Workshop: November 8-12, 2010; Christian Medical College, Vellore

A practical workshop for those who have a published protocol for a Cochrane Systematic Review that they wish to complete, or for those who wish to update a published Cochrane review. Participants will be provided space, resources, resource persons, and help to complete the results and discussion section for their reviews, including extracting and entering data into RevMan 5, performing meta-analysis and other pre-specified secondary analyses. 

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Creating Summary of findings tables and grading recommendations using GRADE Pro: November 12, 2010

This practical workshop will help participants create summary of findings tables and evidence summaries of the meta-analyses in their systematic reviews using GRADE Pro software, interpret results and write the discussion and recommendations of the review. A stand alone workshop as well as the last day of the review completion workshop.

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Winter Symposium

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8th Winter Symposium of the Christian Medical College, Vellore and 3rd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence-Informed Healthcare: Jan 11-14, 2010

Presentations now available.. click here

The South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre thanks all resource persons, session chairs and facilitators, participants, funders and those who helped make the 8th Winter Symposium of the Christian Medical College and the 3rd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence Informed Healthcare (January 11-14, 2010) such a resounding success.....Read more...


 

The South Asian Cochrane Network & Centre

Celebrating five years of the South Asian Cochrane Network

(Jan 2005-Jan 2010)

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 Healthcare 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...