Temadag: Evidens för dina patienter (Evidence for your patients)
On the 6th of May, SBU and HTA Skåne will host a seminar/workshop - Evidens för dina patienter, which will take place in Malmö. The event is aimed for people interested in evidence-based medicine. Healthcare professionals and researchers working in the south of Sweden will be able to attend free of charge.
Cochrane Sweden and Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare will be presenting and the day will be moderated by Ingemar Peterson, Head of Research at Skåne University Hospital. If you are interested in attending this event, you can find registration and schedule details in the invitation.
Most viewed Systematic Reviews in the Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a highly cited journal by researchers, but it is also used by policymakers, clinicians and patients. We have summarized the most accessed systematic reviews in 2018 from the Cochrane Library in Sweden, Norway and Denmark respectively. Watch this space for the 2019 update of most accessed systematic reviews.
Workshops and courses
Läkartidningen seminar on cancer screening
7th February 2020
Läkartidningen is organising a seminar on cancer screening in Stockholm on Friday the 7th February. Cochrane Nordic's Director Karsten Juhl Jørgensen will be presenting about overdiagnosis in cancer screening. This is an opportunity for anyone interested to hear more about Cochrane evidence within cancer screening research.
When: Friday, 7. February 2020 from 9.30 to 17.00
Where: Ingenjörhuset, Malmskillnadsgatan 46, 11200 Stockholm
For more information about the event contact Helene Engström, Läkartidningen, phone: +46 08-7903300
Suggestions for future courses and workshops
Feel free to contact us if you have suggestions for specific Cochrane workshops or courses.
At Cochrane Sweden, we offer a number of courses and workshops for people interested in learning to conduct, edit and read systematic reviews. This month, we held our very first Diagnostic Test Accuracy workshop at Lund University, which was conducted by Rob Scholten, former director of Cochrane Netherlands and Professor of Evidence Synthesis in Health Care at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary. Participants came from all over Europe and included researchers, clinicians and policymakers.
Cochrane Sweden regularly offer courses all over Sweden and Europe. We are always looking for new topics and locations for the next course. Any suggestions for future locations or specific workshops or courses would be welcome. Please contact us by email if you have an idea or suggestion for a future course/workshop for 2020.
Article about Cochrane and Cochrane Sweden in ÖNH-tidskrift
Last month ÖNH-tidskrift (a Swedish Journal on ENT) highlighted a presentation by Martin Burton about Cochrane evidence. Moreover, they published an article from the annual Holmgrensföreläsning about the initial ideas and attempts of reviewing the current evidence, the start of the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and the launch of Cochrane Sweden in 2017.
You can read a summary of the article in Swedish or access the whole article if you want to know more.
Cochrane International Mobility - Franek
During 2019, Franciszek Borys completed a Cochrane International Mobility programme with us and has since continued to be involved in research and evidence synthesis. This month Cochrane newsletter highlights his experience with the programme. Read the full interview with Franek.
How did you first learn about Cochrane? I first heard about Cochrane systematic review in a lecture: 'Volume-targeted versus pressure-limited ventilation in neonates" during a neonatal scientific conference in Poznan. I was really impressed by this study. However I was not involved in Cochrane research before I joined the Cochrane International Mobility Programme (CIM).
What was your experience with Cochrane International Mobility? At the beginning of my CIM exchange I had an opportunity to completeCochrane Interactive Training which gave me basic knowledge about systematic reviews and taught me how to conduct it. It was also great experience in terms of learning about overall research methodology. This I find definitely valuable if you are involved in evidence-based medicine. Later I was working on a systematic review on harms in Cochrane reviews on screening, which was led by the Director of Cochrane Sustainable Health Care. Last but not least, CIM is also an amazing opportunity to meet open-minded, interesting and hardworking scientist from other countries.
What are you doing now in relation to your Cochrane International Mobility experience? When I came back to Poland I joined DTA review about Continuous Glucose Monitoring in preterm neonates, led by Cochrane Sweden and Cochrane Netherlands. I am also going to attend workshop about DTA methodology in Sweden. My future plan is to continue collaboration with Cochrane Sweden especially in the fields of neonatology and sustainable healthcare.
Do you have any words of advice to anyone conserving a Cochrane International Mobility experience? Just do it 😉
Join Cochrane Sweden
Would you like to be a part of the Cochrane community? We have over 68,000 supporters from around the world and 11,000 members. There a number of ways that you can contribute. You can find out more from our Join Cochrane page on how you can be a part of Cochrane.
Watch this 3-minute video to learn more about Cochrane Sweden and what we do.
At Cochrane Sweden, we also regularly host and train people who would like to work with Cochrane through the Cochrane International Mobility Programme. Some of the people participating on this programme have kindly shared their stories, which can be read on the Join Cochrane webpage.
