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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on January 31, 2008
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34(2):259-265; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm167
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Cochrane Schizophrenia Group

Clive E. Adams1,2, Evandro S. F. Coutinho3, John Davis4, Lorna Duggan5, Stefan Leucht6, Chunbo Li7 and Prathap Tharyan8
2 Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, UK
3 Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods, ENSP-FIOCRUZ, Brazil
4 Psychiatric Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago
5 St Andrew's Hospital, UK
6 Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Munich, Germany
7 Department of Psychiatry, Tongji Hospital of Tongji University in Shanghai, People's Republic of China
8 Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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   Background
 
Systematic Reviewing, Cochrane, and the Cochrane Collaboration
In 1884, Lord Raleigh, the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, stated "If, as is sometimes supposed, science consisted in nothing but the laborious accumulation of facts, it would soon come to a standstill, crushed, as it were, under its own weight .... Two processes are thus at work side by side, the reception of new material and the digestion and assimilation of the old ...."1 When applied to the accumulation of facts on the effects of medical treatments, health care had to wait nearly 100 years for attempt to apply basic epidemiological principles and quantification into the process of reviewing. Beecher2 was, perhaps, the first to apply these principles in health with an early review of the effects of placebo. Some years later, in the mid-1970s, Gene Glass, an educational psychologist, added results of similar studies in the hope of quantifying the effects . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group

   The Contribution
 
The Network
The Reviews
Direct Contributions to the Science of Reviewing

The Science of Information Retrieval..

Making Reports Accessible..

Piecing Together the Sausage From the Salami..

The Statistics of Loss.. Trials

Content, Quality, and Biases..

Design and Conduct.. Keeping Up-To-Date

Electronic Publication..

Derivative Publications, Guidelines..
   The Future
 

   Supplementary Material
 

   Funding
 
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: clive.adams@nottingham.ac.uk


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