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 Sciencesand, 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.
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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) |
| Since March, 2006, Ms. Julie Monalisa 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. |
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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.
Julie 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.
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Work Output Report for the Year 2008
Coding and Entries
Total no of pdfs coded – 804
Total no of pdfs entered in Meerkat – 1047
Total no. of binned references – 85
Total no. of duplicate references – 55
Ovid Records (From Jan ’08 to Nov ’08)
MEDLINE
Total no. of records – 679
No of RCTs – 166
No of CCTs - 16
EMBASE
Total no. of records – 1426
No of RCTs – 128
No of CCTs – 10
PSYCHINFO
Total no. of records – 1327
No of RCTs– 185
No of CCTs – 11
CINAHL
Total no. of records – 1756
No of RCTs – 84
No of CCTs – 8
AMED
Total no. of records - 16
No of RCTs – 4
PSYCEXTRA (Mar ’08)
Total no. of records – 45
No of RCTs - 7
Clinicaltrials.gov search
Total no of records – 5023
Total no of RCTs (after checking duplicates) – 495
Current Controlled Trials
Total no of records retrieved – 100
Total no of RCT (after checking duplicates) – 6
Posters and Conference Abstracts
American Psychiatric Association Conference abstracts
41 references created.
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
15 references created.
CINP posters
36 references created.
Other Posters & Conference Abstracts
106 references created.
Schizophrenia Research
29 references created and imported into Meerkat.
Review references not in Meerkat
55 references created and imported into Meerkat.
Meerkat Imports
CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PSYCHINFO, AMED, PSYCEXTRA records, POSTER references, REVIEW references not in meerkat, Current controlled trials references & Clinicaltrials.gov references imported into Meerkat.
South Asian Trials
South Asian Trials spreadsheet created.
References in Filter-Database
108 references checked to see if they are available in Filter database.
Updating Review references in Meerkat
References from 43 reviews were checked, updated and merged in Meerkat. References from 51 reviews were updated in Meerkat.
Records in Database (Meerkat)
Total no. of records in Meerkat – 12780
No of records that are yet to be enter ed– 1004
Last CSG no. entered in Meerkat - 12140
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