Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Collaboration, established in 1993, is an international network of people helping healthcare providers, policy makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed decisions about human health care by preparing, updating and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the medical literature. The Cochrane collaboration has centres all over the world, including the South African Cochrane Centre at the MRC . There are numerous topic specific review groups, including the Infectious Diseases Group.
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Assessing the quality of standard treatment guidelines on the management of HIV, malaria, diarrhoea in children, hypertension and malaria, both from the WHO and all SADC countries using the AGREE II instrument. In addition providing assistance with writing the report on the study.
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Providing support to a systematic review on trends in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of malaria treatment and prevention in Africa (e.g. identification of RCTs and the data extraction from the studies found, and writing up).
Reference: Vittoria Lutje | Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group -
Writing an abstract and delivering an oral presentation at the 5th Public Health Association of South Africa Conference 2009 on trends in randomized controlled trials of malaria treatment and prevention in Africa.
Reference: Vittoria Lutje | Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group
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