Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung (CDS)

Cochrane Germany We have been representing Cochrane in Germany since 1999. As a national centre, Cochrane Germany's main task is to make the evidence summarised in the Cochrane Reviews generally accessible and to advocate its use. We also support authors in the preparation of systematic reviews, for example by offering a variety of workshops. We work closely with Cochrane Switzerland at the University of Lausanne, Cochrane Austria at the Danube University in Krems and Cochrane Hungary at the University of Pécs. The Cochrane Centres are not directly responsible for preparing and updating systematic reviews. This is the responsibility of the Cochrane Review Groups. Two of these groups have their 'Editorial Base' in Germany: The group for 'Haematological Malignancies' at the University Hospital Cologne and the group for 'Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders' at the University Hospital Düsseldorf. Until the end of 2013, the German Cochrane Centre was part of the Department of Medical Biometry & Medical Informatics at the University Hospital of Freiburg, from 2014 onwards it was a central institution of the University Hospital. In October 2017, Cochrane Germany finally became an independent and non-profit foundation, the Cochrane Germany Foundation (CDS). It is mainly funded by the Federal Ministry of Health and the University Hospital of Freiburg. Cochrane Cochrane is an international network that provides the scientific basis for decisions in the health care sector. At the centre of its work are the so-called Cochrane Reviews. These systematic reviews summarise the entire scientific evidence on a specific issue in medicine or other health sciences - up-to-date, following a strict scientific methodology and free of commercial conflicts of interest. Cochrane Reviews are trusted by professionals, patients and policy-makers around the world as trustworthy information from medicine and related fields. Cochrane was founded in 1993 as the Cochrane Collaboration in Oxford by a group of doctors led by the British physician Iain Chalmers. It was named after the British doctor and epidemiologist Archibald Leman Cochrane (1909 - 1988), whose book "Effectiveness and Efficiency" from 1972 is considered a milestone in evidence-based medicine. Since his beginnings, Cochrane has become one of the most important figures in the field of evidence-based medicine. The organisation is based in London. More than 79,000 members and supporters from over 130 countries worldwide contribute to Cochrane's work (as of October 2019).