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Background: In keeping with the aims of The Cochrane Collaboration, the Cochrane Neurological Network hosts an annual workshop in Corciano, Italy, which:
- facilitates access to Cochrane reviews and disseminates reviews to a worldwide neurological audience;
- promotes the evidence-based approach to health care in the field of neurology.
To achieve these aims, the Cochrane Neurological Network has organized workshops on single neurological topics to discuss all of the specific reviews published on that topic in The Cochrane Library in a multidisciplinary setting.
Objectives:
- disseminate systematic reviews of the effects of health care in different professions and disciplines;
- teach participants how to implement the results of Cochrane systematic reviews in their clinical practice;
- appraise critically systematic reviews in comparison with clinical practice.
Methods: Only one neurological disease topic is dealt with at each meeting, and it is selected by the local organizing committee according to:
- clinical criteria (e.g. interventions relevant for different professions);
- methodological criteria (e.g. type of outcome measures).
Each meeting is held as follows:
- expert physicians present the routine treatment of the disease to give a realistic picture of clinical management variability;
- Neurological Network readers, who are experienced in systematic reviews, give a critical account of the reviews chosen;
- a panel of multidisciplinary experts from different affiliations compare current clinical practice with the best clinical evidence in the literature.
Results: Three workshops, respectively about dementia, carpal tunnel syndrome and subarachnoid haemorrhage, have been organised already. Many specialists (neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, intensive care specialists, orthopaedic specialists, hand surgeons, etc.) participated and compared their clinical practice with the best evidence of the Cochrane reviews.
Conclusions: This model sheds light on current clinical behaviours and highlights the Cochrane reviews and their results in changing these behaviours allowing the workshop participants an overview of Cochrane reviews relevant to their clinical decisions.
- facilitates access to Cochrane reviews and disseminates reviews to a worldwide neurological audience;
- promotes the evidence-based approach to health care in the field of neurology.
To achieve these aims, the Cochrane Neurological Network has organized workshops on single neurological topics to discuss all of the specific reviews published on that topic in The Cochrane Library in a multidisciplinary setting.
Objectives:
- disseminate systematic reviews of the effects of health care in different professions and disciplines;
- teach participants how to implement the results of Cochrane systematic reviews in their clinical practice;
- appraise critically systematic reviews in comparison with clinical practice.
Methods: Only one neurological disease topic is dealt with at each meeting, and it is selected by the local organizing committee according to:
- clinical criteria (e.g. interventions relevant for different professions);
- methodological criteria (e.g. type of outcome measures).
Each meeting is held as follows:
- expert physicians present the routine treatment of the disease to give a realistic picture of clinical management variability;
- Neurological Network readers, who are experienced in systematic reviews, give a critical account of the reviews chosen;
- a panel of multidisciplinary experts from different affiliations compare current clinical practice with the best clinical evidence in the literature.
Results: Three workshops, respectively about dementia, carpal tunnel syndrome and subarachnoid haemorrhage, have been organised already. Many specialists (neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, intensive care specialists, orthopaedic specialists, hand surgeons, etc.) participated and compared their clinical practice with the best evidence of the Cochrane reviews.
Conclusions: This model sheds light on current clinical behaviours and highlights the Cochrane reviews and their results in changing these behaviours allowing the workshop participants an overview of Cochrane reviews relevant to their clinical decisions.