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Egyptian Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

The Egyptian Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (ECEBM) was established in Cairo in 2008 as an initiative of dedicated scientists. Our broad aim is to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them

Partnership with the Egyptian Cochrane network

The establishment of a fruitful partnership with the Egyptian Cochrane network is an important way for exchange of ideas, advice and resources. The ECEBM will support authors from Egypt to get involved as authors in the Cochrane Collaboration.

Egyptian Cochrane network

The Egyptian Cochrane network (ECn) is a network of the Egyptian contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. It is a network of dedicated volunteers. The primary role is to provide an opportunity for contributors to The Cochrane Collaboration in Egypt to work together more closely, to support each other and to build on this enthusiasm to expand Cochrane Collaboration activity in Egypt.

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare 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 interventions.

Core Functions

  1. To provide or facilitate training and support for review authors, editors, hand-searchers and other contributors to The Cochrane Collaboration.
  2. To assist in finding funding for activities related to preparing, maintaining and promoting accessibility to Cochrane reviews.
  3. To promote accessibility to The Cochrane Library to healthcare professionals, patients and others, e.g. by pursuing a national subscription for Egypt and facilitating translations of the output of The Cochrane Collaboration.
  4. To hand-search healthcare journals and to submit the search results to the Collaborations trial database.

In order to fulfill these core functions, ECn will be required to:

  1. ensure effective and efficient communication between members of the network and others in The Cochrane Collaboration 
  2. maintain a description of the networks activities
  3. ensure sustainability and continuity of the network
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule." Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)

Activities

The Center will provide a regional focus for the activities of The Cochrane Collaboration in Egypt in order to:
  • promote evidence-based health care
  • facilitate the production and use of Cochrane Reviews

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Impact of Cochrane evidence

Cochrane reviews have become known internationally as sources of high quality, reliable health information, and other groups have begun to interpret, adapt and disseminate Cochrane reviews and information derived from them.