The Indian Satellite Site of the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group (CSG) is situated at the South Asian Cochrane Centre at Vellore. The editorial base of the CSG is in Nottingham, UK and is affiliated with The University of Nottingham's School of Community Health Sciences and, within that, the Division of Psychiatry. It also forms part of the Institute of Mental Health. Editors of the CSG are based in Brazil, India, China, USA and Germany, as well as the UK.

The CSG editors meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007 (editors in the picture are Chunbo Li, Evandro Coutinho, Stefan Leucht, Clive Adams; Giselle Huf (third from left) is a review author with the CSG; Absent editors are Lorna Duggan, John Davis and Mahesh Jayaram)


Mr. Chaithanya works as an Assistant Trials Search Coordinator (TSC) for the CSG at the South Asian Cochrane Centre. The CSG specialized register currently contains over 12,000 reports of trials on schizophrenia and related psychoses from all over the world (easily the single largest collection of trials anywhere in the world), thanks to the hard work of the TSCs that have been associated with the CSG. The current TSC at the CSG is Samantha Roberts


The source of trials in the CSG specialized register are from regular searches of CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PSYCHINFO, AMED, PSYCEXTRA records, POSTER and CONFERENCES, Current Controlled Trials references & Clinicaltrials.gov
The register is stored in Meerkat, an MS Access base program developed by the Cochrane Collaboration that is amazingly versatile for coding, searching for, analyzing and retrieving trial summaries.
Chaithanya and Samantha work together through cyberspace to code trial reports for systematic review authors. The CSG now send authors a CD with the results of the search, the summary of the trial coded for relevant fields, and the PDF files of each trial..