The Cochrane Library

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The Cochrane Library
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What is The Cochrane Library? How do you know if
one healthcare intervention works better than
another, or if it will do more harm than good?
Information about health is everywhere, but how
can health professionals and consumers make sense
of all the research going on around the world?
Health care in the 21st Century relies not only
on individual medical skills, but also on the
best information on the effectiveness of each
intervention being accessible to practitioners,
patients, and policy makers. This approach is
known as evidence-based medicine.
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• What is in The Cochrane Library?
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane
  Reviews)
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
  (Other Reviews)
• Central Register of Controlled Trials (Clinical
  Trials)
• Cochrane Methodology Register (Methods Studies)
• Health Technology Assessment Database (Technology
  Assessments)
• NHS Economic Evaluation Database (Economic
  Evaluations)

It also contains information about The Cochrane
Collaboration and The Cochrane Collaborative
Review Groups
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The Cochrane Library has many features that make
finding the information you are after fast and
accurate
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An Advanced Search of The Cochrane Library
searching for all text schizo, drugs, atypical
and antipsychotic. in All Fields in The Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews"
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Returns the following results
You can toggle between results listed for the
different databases in The Cochrane Library here
Use these links to restrict your search results
to Reviews only, or Protocols (reviews in
progress) only.
Save or edit your search using these links.
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MeSH (Medical Subjects Heading Search)
Let us look at an example MeSH search
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MeSH (Medical Subjects Heading Search)
Use the Thesaurus to search for MeSH descriptors
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MeSH (Medical Subjects Heading Search)
Or use qualifiers.
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Search History
Select Search History to combine searches, enter
their number together with Boolean operator of
choice (AND, OR, NOT).
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Search History
Combine searches by entering their number
together with Boolean operator of choice (AND,
OR, NOT).
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Search History
Your combined search will then appear in your
Search History.
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CHANGES TO THE COCHRANE LIBRARY

• COCHRANE REVIEWS - improved STATUS FLAGS

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New sections in Cochrane Reviews
Author Affiliations and Contact details
This information appears at the top of the review.
Explicit Review Status dates displayed here
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WHATS NEW? SECTION
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NEW RISK OF BIAS TABLE
Review authors have the option to include a risk
of bias table as an extension of the
characteristics of included studies table
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NEW RISK OF BIAS TABLE
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APPENDICES
This new section will feature additional
information and documents, where relevant.