Catalogue description The Cochrane Collaboration Website

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The Cochrane Collaboration was established in 1993 and is an international, non-profit, independent organisation, established to ensure that up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare interventions is readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions, and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of the effects of interventions. The results of these systematic reviews are published as 'Cochrane Reviews' in the Cochrane Library.

By 2010 The Cochrane Collaboration had become a group of over 27,000 volunteers in more than 90 countries. There is no one place or office that is 'The Cochrane Collaboration'; its contributors and entities are based all around the world and the majority of its work is carried out online. To tie the Collaboration together there are a number of overarching structures, led by a Steering Group, which provides policy and strategic leadership for the organisation. Members of this group are democratically elected from, and by, its contributors. There is also a Secretariat, based in Oxford, which supports the work of the Steering Group and the Collaboration's entities, led by the Chief Executive Officer of the Collaboration; and an Cochrane Editorial Unit, based in London. Cochrane Centres (some of which have additional branches) support people in their geographic and linguistic area.