What does the Cochrane symbol mean?
Our logo tells a story Each horizontal line represents the results of one study, while the diamond represents the combined result, our best estimate of whether the treatment is effective or harmful.
What is the purpose of the Cochrane Collaboration?
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, not-for-profit organisation that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health-care interventions.
What is the Cochrane model?
The Cochrane Collaboration has been at the forefront of systematic review methodology, pioneering a rigorous approach that standardizes a highly structured systematic review model. Key elements of the model are transparency and reproducibility of research methods.
Why is Cochrane called Cochrane?
Cochrane gets its name Cochrane was named after Senator Matthew Henry Cochrane, the man who established the Cochrane Ranche in 1881. The Canadian Pacific Railway granted the town site in 1885 and named it in honour of Senator Cochrane, but few people made Cochrane their home despite the surrounding ranching population.
What is good about Cochrane?
Cochrane systematic reviews should be uniquely placed to influence policy, practice and research as they provide a comprehensive, critical summary of what is known about effectiveness on a given topic; the rigour of their methods is widely acknowledged, and they are periodically updated in light of new evidence.
What is a Cochrane review summary?
What are Cochrane’s Plain Language Summaries? Plain Language Summaries (PLSs) help people to understand and interpret research findings and are included in all Cochrane Reviews. PLSs are created using standard content, structure and language to ease understanding and translation.
Is Cochrane a town or city?
Cochrane (/ˈkɒkrən/ KOK-rən) is a town in the Canadian province of Alberta. The town is located 18 km (11 mi) west of the Calgary city limits along Highway 1A. Cochrane is one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, and with a population of 34,467 in 2021, it is one of the largest towns in Alberta.
What is a Cochrane corner?
The Cochrane Corner is a section in the journal that highlights systematic reviews relevant to otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, with invited commentary to aid clinical decision making. Keywords: Cochrane Collaboration; chronic rhinosinusitis; evidence-based medicine; intranasal corticosteroids; systematic review.
What was the forest plot in the Cochrane Collaboration?
The forest plot in the Cochrane Collaboration logo is from one of the first systematic reviews ever published. The paper, published in 1991, showed that giving steroids to mothers whose babies were due to be born prematurely, reduced the complications of prematurity.
What does the Diamond Mean in the Cochrane logo?
The diamond sits clearly to the left of the vertical line representing “no difference”, therefore the evidence indicates that the treatment is beneficial. We call this representation a “forest plot”. This forest plot within our logo illustrates an example of the potential for systematic reviews to improve health care.
What do the horizontal lines on a forest plot represent?
Each horizontal line put onto a forest plot represents a separate study being analysed. In Figure 3, three studies are represented. Each study ‘result’ has two components to it: A point estimate of the study result represented by a black box. This black box also gives a representation of the size of the study.
How many forest plots are included in revman?
One forest plot for each dataset entered into RevMan is automatically incorporated into the full published version of the Cochrane review. Default analyses are displayed unless options are overridden.