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Background: The Chinese Cochrane Centre, registered with the Collaboration in March, 1999 which is the youngest center within the Collaboration, has been marching on with the development of the Collaboration since the concept of Cochrane Collaboration first came to China in 1996.
Objective: To investigate the progress and identify the weak points. To develop the strategies to keep up with the mission of the Collaboration of preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of effects of health care intervention.
Method: To make baseline summaries including the checklist of the work items every half year to see what we have done and need to be done. To compare the Cochrane activities in the past with that of the present in various ways such as training, producing systematic reviews, trial searching, dissemination and education.
Results: Ten baseline summaries for five years were made and we found that: At the beginning of 1997, there was only one reviewer from China with one review published in Cochrane Library, now 29 reviewers with 8 completed reviews and 14 protocols and 32 titles registered. In 1997, since the first exploratory meeting for EBM held in China with 146 participants, now there are 36 workshops held with 4672 participants from 29 provinces and cities including Hong Kong. There are 80 lectures and talks given nationwide with 8000 audience. In 1996, trial searching started in only one speciality, now 35 specialities involved in this activities with 106 journals registered to the Central and 947 RCTs were included in the Cochrane Library. In 1996, there was just one article on EBM published in one Chinese medical journal, now 267 published in over 66 Chinese medical journals, which of 29 are the leading key medical journals in China. Over 10 books on EBM and Cochrane Collaboration in Chinese, one Chinese Journal of EBM and the related homepage have sprung up.
Conclusion: Although Chinese Cochrane Centre has advanced with the development of the Collaboration, still some big challenges have been existed such as effective disseminating evidence to clinicians, implementing evidence into practice, patient involvement and the urgent need of qualified EBM personal such as methodologist, information specialist to meet the huge needs of people in China.
Objective: To investigate the progress and identify the weak points. To develop the strategies to keep up with the mission of the Collaboration of preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of effects of health care intervention.
Method: To make baseline summaries including the checklist of the work items every half year to see what we have done and need to be done. To compare the Cochrane activities in the past with that of the present in various ways such as training, producing systematic reviews, trial searching, dissemination and education.
Results: Ten baseline summaries for five years were made and we found that: At the beginning of 1997, there was only one reviewer from China with one review published in Cochrane Library, now 29 reviewers with 8 completed reviews and 14 protocols and 32 titles registered. In 1997, since the first exploratory meeting for EBM held in China with 146 participants, now there are 36 workshops held with 4672 participants from 29 provinces and cities including Hong Kong. There are 80 lectures and talks given nationwide with 8000 audience. In 1996, trial searching started in only one speciality, now 35 specialities involved in this activities with 106 journals registered to the Central and 947 RCTs were included in the Cochrane Library. In 1996, there was just one article on EBM published in one Chinese medical journal, now 267 published in over 66 Chinese medical journals, which of 29 are the leading key medical journals in China. Over 10 books on EBM and Cochrane Collaboration in Chinese, one Chinese Journal of EBM and the related homepage have sprung up.
Conclusion: Although Chinese Cochrane Centre has advanced with the development of the Collaboration, still some big challenges have been existed such as effective disseminating evidence to clinicians, implementing evidence into practice, patient involvement and the urgent need of qualified EBM personal such as methodologist, information specialist to meet the huge needs of people in China.