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The Cochrane Collaboration

  • REVIEW TOPIC: EVIDENCE-BASED SURGERY
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The Cochrane Collaboration is an international organisation that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and ensuring the accessibility of systematic reviews of the benefits and risks of health care interventions. We describe the structure and activities of the Cochrane Collaboration, especially focusing on the carrying out of systematic reviews of randomised trials. We describe the place of surgery and surgeons within the Cochrane Collaboration.

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  1. ICRF/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK, , , , , , GB

    Douglas G. Altman

  2. Consultant Otolaryngologist, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK, , , , , , GB

    Martin J. Burton

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Received: 11 May 1999 Accepted: 14 September 1999

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Altman, D., Burton, M. The Cochrane Collaboration. Langenbeck's Arch Surg 384, 432–436 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004230050226

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