The Cochrane Collaboration and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Data

Abstract

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.

• evidence-based medicine
• Cochrane Collaboration
• meta-analysis