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Introduction: The Newsletter (NL) of the Possible Cochrane Neurological Network (PCNN) was created to publicise neurological CRGs activity and the reviews published on the Cochrane Library (CL). The NL is an open platform where people in the mailing list of the PCNN can identify, discuss and solve the problems that they meet in approaching or participating to the Cochrane project. The expected users of the NL are the nine CRGs mainly active in the neurological field, neurologists and neurosurgeons all over the world, Cochrane collaborators and not.
Objectives:
Methods: The general objective is pursued: presenting the CL and giving information on the way to get it; collecting information from the nine CRGs on their work and on what they have published and have scheduled to publish in the CL; identifying arguments that are important at the moment in the Cochrane Collaboration (CC) and in neurology, and to stimulate the discussion on these topics by publishing letters of experts in that field (last issue dealt with: data treatment in meta-analysis, relations with the drug companies, the CL in the clinical practice, systematic reviews in dementia); collecting CDSR and DARE of neurological interest and publishing a brochure with all the titles that can be useful to the neurologist in the clinical practice, giving the bibliographic references to find them.
Results:
Discussion: The NL has been distributed to more than 200 people in 8 countries. The first evident result is that people already interested in the CC have been put in communication and the aim of reaching also non CL users has been pursued. For the next future we intend to grow up this important information channel and to increase the number of its active collaborators.
Objectives:
Methods: The general objective is pursued: presenting the CL and giving information on the way to get it; collecting information from the nine CRGs on their work and on what they have published and have scheduled to publish in the CL; identifying arguments that are important at the moment in the Cochrane Collaboration (CC) and in neurology, and to stimulate the discussion on these topics by publishing letters of experts in that field (last issue dealt with: data treatment in meta-analysis, relations with the drug companies, the CL in the clinical practice, systematic reviews in dementia); collecting CDSR and DARE of neurological interest and publishing a brochure with all the titles that can be useful to the neurologist in the clinical practice, giving the bibliographic references to find them.
Results:
Discussion: The NL has been distributed to more than 200 people in 8 countries. The first evident result is that people already interested in the CC have been put in communication and the aim of reaching also non CL users has been pursued. For the next future we intend to grow up this important information channel and to increase the number of its active collaborators.