# \[e-drug\] Evidence-based treatment guidelines (cont'd) **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [February 24, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-evidence-based-treatment-guidelines-contd/7421 "2000-02-24T21:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_Garner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@Paul\_Garner](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/Paul_Garner)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-evidence-based-treatment-guidelines-contd/7421/1 "2000-02-24T21:50:14Z")
E-drug: Evidence-based treatment guidelines (cont'd) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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](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](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](http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/ihd98-1.html) -- Send mail for the `E-Drug' conference to `e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'. Mail administrative requests to `majordomo@usa.healthnet.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: `owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'.