We researched how much difference opioids like codeine, oxycodone or morphine make to osteoarthritis pain. We found they helped about as much as paracetamol. Yet they are far more dangerous.
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Good science doesn’t eliminate uncertainty: it explains it.
The limitations of traditional literature review approaches could be improved relatively easily with a few key procedures.
Systematic reviews are rarely applied to basic research. A new study shows how they could separate good data from bad, saving millions in research dollars and speeding life-saving treatments.
South Africa has become the first country on the continent to purchase a national licence to the Cochrane library – giving everyone access to evidence-based information about health care.
Research involving pharmaceutical company input is notoriously compromised. While not all industry ties lead to biased research, and not all biases are a consequence of industry ties, many studies show…
We work at the Australasian Cochrane Centre and we dread being asked what we do for a living. This isn’t because we don’t like what we do, in fact we love it. It’s because when we explain that our job…
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Senior researcher at the Africa Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Co-Director, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash University
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Director, Evidence and Methods, National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce; Associate Professor (Research), Cochrane Australia, School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Monash University
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Researcher, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard University
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Director, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor: Evidence-Informed Decision-Making, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Academic Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Africa Centre for Evidence and Stockholm Environment Institute, University of Johannesburg
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University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Doctor of Medicine, Griffith University
