Cochrane Colloquium 2018

The Cochrane Colloquium is an annual event, bringing people together from around the world to discuss important global health questions and promote evidence-informed health programs. This year the theme is ‘Cochrane for all – better evidence for better health decisions,’ which recognizes that everything Cochrane does is about, and for, patients and other health consumers. It is a Patients Included event, co-designed, co-produced and co-presented by healthcare consumers, where everyone’s input is valued equally.

The Colloquium will focus on key goals of Cochrane’s Strategy to 2020:

• Producing evidence
• Making evidence accessible
• Advocating for evidence

Event organizers will be accepting abstracts in the following categories:

• Adverse effects
• Diagnostic test accuracy review methods
• Editorial processes and supporting review authors
• Education and training
• Global health and equity
• Health economics
• Inclusion of non-randomized designs
• Innovative solutions to challenges of evidence production
• Investigating bias
• Knowledge translation and communicating evidence
• Overviews of reviews and network meta-analyses
• Patient or healthcare consumer involvement and shared decision-making
• Priority setting
• Qualitative evidence synthesis methodology
• Searching and information retrieval
• Statistical methods
• Translation (linguistic translation of Cochrane content)
• Understanding and using evidence
• Other

The deadline to submit abstracts is March 2, 2018.

For more information, visit the Cochrane Colloquium website.