The Cochrane Collaboration

• During the 1970's, the British epidemiologist Archie Cochrane pointed out that physicians, researchers and policy makers knew too little about the effects of health care to make well informed decisions. The ever increasing amount of research information made keeping up-to-date difficult - if not impossible - and reliable and structured reviews of the existing research literature were hard to come by. Cochrane called out for developing systematic, up-to-date reviews of all relevant randomised clinical trials (RCT) of health care.
• The Cochrane Collaboration was founded in October 1993, a year after the opening of the Cochrane Centre in Oxford, U.K. Today, ten years later, the Cochrane Collaboration comprises 50 different Cochrane Review Groups worldwide, covering all major fields of health care.
• The work of the Cochrane Collaboration is about "Preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions".

The Cochrane Collaboration and the EU-PSI project

• In the EU-PSI project (2000-2003), several European universities and the Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups within the field of mental health; the Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, the Depression Anxiety Neurosis Group, the Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group, the Drugs and Alcohol Group, and the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, were collaborating to create two databases, PsiTri and The Mental Health Library .

Read more about the Cochrane Collaboration, its origins and principles

Read more about the Cochrane Review Groups and participants involved in the EU-PSI project: http://www.psitri.helsinki.fi/part/particip.htm

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