Hello and welcome to our final newsletter of 2019, designed to keep you up to date with news and information from PaPaS.
We hope this will be of interest to you as an author, editor, peer reviewer or someone who is keen to learn more about the work of the Cochrane PaPaS Group. You can easily unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of this page should you wish to.
PaPaS News
PaPaS in 2019: a summary
2019 has been another successful year for PaPaS. We have seen our Impact Factor rise to 8.316 and we achieved the 4th highest NIHR Progress Score for UK Groups. We have updated our Resources page for authors and reviewers, including a 'step by step' page of the editorial process for protocols, reviews and updates (see here). We co-ordinated a very successful campaign in June to disseminate our work around the lack of evidence for chronic pain in children (see here). Kerry has been working incredibly hard on our Knowledge Translation Strategy, and has implemented a dissemination plan for every review. We have also initiated our first ever formal prioritisation exercise which will continue into 2020. We regularly engage with our colleagues in the Moss Network (see here), and we were delighted to appoint Roses Parker as our Network Support Fellow in September, hosted by PaPaS. We are grateful to our fantastic editorial board, our authors and peer reviewers, and all other collaborators and contributors. We wish you a happy festive season and we look forward to sharing some more good news next year - watch this space!
Anna Erskine (Managing Editor)
PaPaS editorial board meeting
We met with our editorial board at the beginning of December in London. We had a busy agenda and it was also an opportunity to reflect on the past year and look at what we want to achieve in 2020. We have a diverse and active editorial board, see our editors on our website here.
Become a citizen scientist - cannabis and pain
This is a great opportunity to develop your professional skills and advance your career as a researcher. Become a citizen scientist as part of an IASP Presidential TaskForce reviewing studies in which cannabinoids were tested for antinociceptive effects. To learn more, and to sign up, see here.
Half day SIG Satellite Symposium
We'll be at the 2020 IASP Pain World Congress, presenting "Evidence Synthesis for Determining Efficacy and Harm: Identifying a Quality Signal in the Growing Noise", a session on making sense of the increasing weight of evidence. For more information and details on how to register, see here.
Podcast: Serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors for fibromyalgia
Now also available in Croatian.
Cochrane News
Cochrane July - September 2019: Highlights from Q3
July to September 2019 was a busy quarter for Cochrane. See some highlights of the third quarter of the year here.
Why consumer involvement in Cochrane research is so important
Listen to Richard Morley, Cochrane's Consumer Engagement Officer, speak about why consumer involvement in Cochrane research is so important. Access the video here.
2019 Virtual #CochraneSantiago Colloquium
The cancellation of the face-to-face 2019 Colloquium, due to civil unrest across Santiago, resulted in Cochrane's first virtual Colloquium. Nearly 180 digital posters and close to 120 video oral presentations were included. For more information, see here, and all content remains freely available on the Colloquium website.
The Recommended Dose podcast: David Tovey
After 10 years at the helm of the Cochrane Library, Dr David Tovey stepped down as Editor-in-Chief. In this podcast he reflects on Cochrane's past, present and future and shares some of the challenges and rewards of leading one of the world's largest and most trusted heath research networks. Access the podcast here.
Cochrane Methods Symposium: Developing robust review protocols with increasingly diverse evidence
Cochrane are pleased to announce the reschedule of the 2019 Methods Symposium, which was cancelled due to the cancelled 2019 Cochrane Colloquium, as an interactive webinar on Wednesday 5 February 2020. For more information, see here. Please note you will need a Cochrane account to sign up for this.
'Searching' News
Cochrane PICO searchBETA
Cochrane PICO search is a powerful discovery tool for finding Cochrane reviews, now available in the Cochrane Library as a Beta release. For more information see here and test it out here.
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