What is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)?
The CDSR is a database of systematic reviews created by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization of expert groups. The Cochrane Collaboration has developed a strict methodology detailing how their topic reviews are performed, which they use to make best practices recommendations for clinicians. Reviews are created in a structured format and developed from an extensive and systematic search of the literature (generally randomized controlled trials), and in fact the Collaboration has built the huge Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials to ensure completeness. Those RCT’s are subjected to detailed statistical analysis following established EBM principles, and the results of the various available trials are compared and combined to provide authoritative conclusions useful in clinical settings. Who is the intended audience for the CDSR? The Cochrane Collaboration bills itself as providing authoritative EBM based medical information for both health care providers and for pa
