This second article in a series on sources of evidence looks at the Cochrane Library. This library contains several electronic databases most notable of which is the Cochrane Database of Systematic ...

The logic of the Cochrane Collaboration remains unassailable. No one individual or group can keep abreast of the thousands of randomized trials that appear in the medical literature each year. The ...

To audit the proportion of interventions in emergency ophthalmology that are evidence based and to determine whether the quality of care can be improved. Audit of diagnosis–intervention pairs was ...

The systematic identification of evidence is an essential step in clinical guideline development. Systematic literature searches undertaken to identify evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness ...