E-drug: Evidence-based treatment guidelines (cont'd)
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This message was passed on to me. I work with people in the
cochrane collaboration on systematic reviews relevant to problems
that occur in developing country primary care settings. I am sure
everyone is convinced about guidelines being useful, but know they
are not always evidence-based.
The best way to make sure they are is that the people putting them
together use reliable and updated sources of information to help them
make decisions, and one excellent source is the Cochrane Library, a
CD rom with systematic reviews, the disk being added to and updated
every three months. The south africa essential drug programme has
drawn on the Cochrane library extensively in considering what drugs
to include at what level.
More information on the Cochrane Library is on this website
http://www.update-software.com/ccweb/cochrane/cdsr.htm
We are just piloting two page summaries of systematic reviews in a
publication called effectiveness update, on
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/ihd98-ehc.html#eu
Feedback always welcome-we are just starting to get dissemination
for these summaries organised!
Paul Garner
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool L3 5QA
UK
Fax: 0151 707 1702
Tel: 0151 708 9393
Mobile: 0498 866193
Email: pgarner@liverpool.ac.uk
NOTE OUR NEW WEB PAGE
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/ihd98-1.html
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