Abstract: The strength of the Cochrane Consumer Network (CCNet) is that it is a network of international consumers. CCNet strives to operate as a diverse community, each of us with legitimate differences of opinion, style, beliefs and purposes. We have the common aim of promoting safe and effective evidence-based health care. CCNet is able to focus its role within The Cochrane Collaboration on the need to provide "quality assurance" from a patient, caregiver, family and community perspective. We do this in the development stage of a Cochrane review. We also have an important role in increasing community awareness of The Cochrane Library and the information it contains.
Objective:
- To increase end-user awareness of the need for effective and safe health care that meets patient needs (patients, carers, community and civil society), about evidence-based health care;
- To develop a global, inclusive approach in a workshop framework.
Description:
A) This workshop maps out the important features of evidence-based health care and a patient-centred approach to shared decision making.
B) We further discuss effectiveness and safety aspects of healthcare interventions and the role of the end user.
C) The role of consumers, linked by CCNet, in furthering improvements in health care.