Cochrane Sweden celebrates 5 years anniversary
2022 is 5 years ago Cochrane Sweden. The center was established on 17 May 2017, in the city of Lund. For this milestone, Cochrane Sweden shares some of its many highlights.
For the past five years, Cochrane Sweden has been busy promoting evidence-based decision-making in healthcare in Sweden. Some achievements have provided learning tools for how to conduct, edit and read systematic reviews. Cochrane Sweden is launched Cochrane Interactive Learning as part of the curriculum for medical students at Lund University to support education in evidence-based health care. Cochrane Sweden is also the first Cochrane group to have unlimited access to Cochrane Interactive Learning. This has led to Sweden having the highest number of users per inhabitant in the world. In addition, the strategic and fruitful collaboration with Lund University has provided unlimited access to Covidence and, in the coming days, to RevMan Web.
Every year, Cochrane Sweden also provides many workshops, courses and lectures about Cochrane, systematic reviews, evidence-based medicine and more specialized topics, such as reviews of non-randomized trials, diagnostic test accuracy reviews and complex meta-analyzes. We have trained hundreds of doctoral students in the Cochrane method, and some of them have become Cochrane writers. Eleven master’s medical students have prepared their master’s theses at our center. In 2017, Cochrane launched Sweden Cochranes International Mobility Program. Since then, more than 20 people have participated in this international exchange program to learn more about evidence-based medicine through collaborations between Cochrane Sweden and other Cochrane centers. You can read some examples of the researchers’ experience of the program here. We are very grateful to all our members Advisory Boardwhich includes Swedish healthcare staff and Cochrane staff from six different groups, for their generous and qualified guidance.
For the past five years, Cochrane Sweden has been busy producing new research. To date, researchers affiliated with our center have completed 22 new or updated Cochrane reviews, published 25 new Cochrane protocols, and 38 other journal articles and reports. This has led to us often being mentioned in international and Swedish media. We currently also have 19 minutes and reviews under preparation. Several of these reviews have been commissioned by national and international stakeholders, including the World Health Organization.
Cochrane Sweden has also collaborated with other centers through the Scandinavian GRADE Network. In 2022, we led the establishment of the network together with Cochrane Denmark, Cochrane Norway, SBU, the Danish Health Authority and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Our team has also grown up! Year 2020, Martin joined as project coordinator and actually coordinates lots of projects, from training to research and dissemination; Katarina delivers in a brilliant way administrative support for our activities and contributes to the development of new projects; In 2022, Lea also became part of the staff: she contributes to the daily activities and ongoing research, such as the Swedish transparency report on experiments.
We have also produced a lot of content on social media. You can follow us on Twitter, LinkedInand Instagramor register in our monthly book newsletter.
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Lea, Martin, Katarina and Matteo