{"id":997,"date":"2002-11-01T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T03:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=997"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:21:16","slug":"cochrane-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/cochrane-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochrane Library opens its pages to WCH and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2002\/11\/01\/cochrane-library\/cochrane_library\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-998\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/Cochrane_Library.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The Cochrane Library \u2013 internationally recognised as the best single source of reliable healthcare information \u2013 is now available to all Australians.<\/p>\n<p>We are one of the few countries in the world to offer free internet access to this important health resource and, being available to consumers and practitioners alike, is expected to change the face of healthcare throughout the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Vitally involved in the medical leap forward is WCH\u2019s Dr Jill Sewell who is Chair of the board of the National Institute of Clinical Studies as well as being Deputy Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/\">Centre for Community Health<\/a> at the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>Jill has been instrumental in encouraging the Federal Government to make the Cochrane Library available throughout Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will give everyone in healthcare, not just those with institutional connections, access to whole new world of health information\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts availability has been applauded by consumers and the medical and healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will help inform consumers while being of invaluable assistance to the healthcare industry<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the flood of information already bombarding healthcare practitioners it is extremely useful for them to freely access such a valuable single source of accurate, evidence based information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cochrane Library is a database of the best available healthcare information. It contains almost 1500 reviews of evidence, known as the Cochrane Reviews, which look at interventions relating to surgery, medicines, complementary therapies and other treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The library also contains several other databases including a register of 350,000 trials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn professional circles Cochrane Reviews are regarded as the \u201cGold Standard\u201d in evidence because of the rigor applied to their preparation and maintenance and internationally are increasingly being used to influence policy and practice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute of Clinical Studies was established two years ago as Australia\u2019s national agency for closing the gap between evidence and practice in healthcare. It successfully negotiated the license with the Cochrane Library on behalf of the Australian Government.<\/p>\n<p>The Cochrane Library is now linked from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/library\/dbases.htm\">WCH Library site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cochrane Library \u2013 internationally recognised as the best single source of reliable healthcare information \u2013 is now available to all Australians. We are one of the few countries in the world to offer free internet access to this important health resource and, being available to consumers and practitioners alike, is expected to change the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/cochrane-library\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}