Méta-analyse: Méthodes avancés en utilisant le logiciel StataCe cours d’approfondissement de 2.5 jours est consacré aux méthodes statistiques les plus utilisées en méta-analyse. L’accent sera mis sur l’application des méthodes et l’interprétation des résultats.

Cochrane Switzerland, jointly with partner institutions in Germany and Austria, founded Cochrane Public Health Europe, as a satellite of the Melbourne-based review group focusing on public health interventions.

Jointly with Cochrane Germany and Cochrane Austria, we developed Wissen was wirkt. In an easily accessible language the blog picks up on topics around evidence-based health care and Cochrane evidence with a focus on what is going on in the three countries.

Filtering the information overload for better decisionsWhat if the key to improving the health of billions of people was locked inside the mountains of information being created every day?Cochrane Austria will be hosting the 23rd Cochrane Colloquium in Vienna.

Encouraging evidence indicates that programmes can improve quality of life, severity of asthma, and lung function.

The INSERM workshop on network meta-analysis is organised by Ludovic TRINQUART, Raphaël PORCHER and Philippe RAVAUD.The objectives are to present the role of network meta-analyses in therapeutic evaluation; the underlying statistical principles and methodological aspects; the potential sources of biases and methods to address them; and the guidelines for quality assessment and reporting.

As part of the project "Facilitating access to scientific literature", the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) offers to practising physicians a free access to the "Cochrane Library".For information and registration see http://www.samw.ch/de/Projekte/Fachliteratur.