Catch up on the latest Cochrane news from around Australia and beyond…
Designing, refining and reflecting on 3 years of daily evidence surveillance for Australia's living COVID-19 guidelines
New Cochrane review weighs up the evidence on public health communication & Covid-19: what worked, what didn’t & why
Retraction inaction: How the pandemic has exposed frailties in scientific publishing
New paper finds more than half of the systematic reviews on remdesivir for Covid-19 were already out of date by the time they were published
Global Cochrane Convenes summit calls for urgent increase in accessible evidence to ensure current & future pandemic preparedness
Nature: the clear case for funding and using ‘living’ reviews to steer research practice and policy
In the latest edition of Nature, Cochrane Australia’s Julian Elliott and Tari Turner join colleagues from around the globe in calling for a greater focus on living evidence to inform research policy and practice.
Latest MJA podcast looks at living guidelines & the clinical care of children and teenagers with COVID-19
Are antibiotics an effective treatment for COVID-19? A new Cochrane review weighs up the evidence
Cochrane Covid-19 update and resources
Cochrane contributors around the world continue to focus on understanding, treating and preventing COVID-19. Cochrane Australia is playing an active role in the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce and continues to collaborate in international efforts to understand, contain and stop the spread of coronavirus.
Can non-pharmacological measures prevent or reduce Covid-19 infections in long term care facilities?
WHO Rapid Review: clear communication critical in the battle against COVID-19
It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago, lockdowns, quarantining and strict social distancing were completely unfamiliar to us. Yet in a matter of months, these measures came to define the daily life of people all over the world. For Coordinating Editor of Cochrane Consumers and Communication Dr Rebecca Ryan, this was a time when the professional and the personal began to intersect.