Welcome to the
Cochrane Back Review Group
Welcome to the web site of the Cochrane Collaborative Back Review Group (BRG), one of 52 international Review Groups. The BRG coordinates the publication of literature reviews of primary and secondary prevention and treatment of neck and back pain and other spinal disorders, excluding inflammatory diseases and fractures.
On this site, you will find links to the Cochrane Collaboration, the Institute for Work & Health and a variety of resources to help you complete your systematic review.
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.
The Back Review Group is hosted by the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) in Toronto, Canada. The IWH is an independent, not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to conduct and share research that protects and improves the health of working people and is valued by policy-makers, workers and workplaces, clinicians, and health & safety professionals.
A message regarding surgical reviews
The Editorial Board has recently decided that it is important to take a step back and decide on the most appropriate way to proceed with surgical reviews. We have now
consulted with a number of leading international surgeons in the field of low-back surgery and are about to engage others who are involved in neck surgery; their advice will be taken into consideration
by the Editorial Board when they finalize the plan. Until then, we will not be accepting new titles for surgical reviews. We will notify readers of the decisions of the Board as soon as
possible.
Message to Canadian Cochrane Subscribers and Stakeholders:
The Cochrane national license pilot via Wiley will cease on February 1, 2010. In order to communicate with Canadians about the end of the trial, Wiley will be creating a branded webpage in
early February to which Canadians will be referred, offering a survey/feedback option, allowing them to sign-up for more information and for future email communications and the option to
sign up for a free 6-month individual trial. For more information, click here.
Do you have a question about a treatment for neck or back pain that we may be able to answer by doing a systematic review? If so, please send your ideas to Vicki Pennick, Managing Editor at cochrane@iwh.on.ca or vpennick@iwh.on.ca
WHAT'S NEW for the Back Review Group
For the latest issue of the CBRG newsletter click here.
2010 Joint Colloquium of the
Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations
Keystone, Colorado, USA
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For the latest issue of Cochrane News, click here.
The 2008 Impact Factor for The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is now available. Click here for more information.
Attention all CBRG members submitting documents (title requests, manuscripts, etc.) to Editorial Office:
The Editorial Office receives a high volume of emails with different attachments and our spam filters sometimes stop them, destroy them, or both.
If you submit a document by email to the CBRG editorial office and do not receive a reply within 2 business days, please follow-up with a text-only email (excluding attachments) or a phone call.
You may need to re-send the document.
We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.
Thank you.
CBRG Editorial Staff
For more information on New Protocols, Reviews, Updated Reviews and other information on Reviews, go to our What's New at the BRG page
Using RevMan 5: For BRG review authors -- need tips on using RevMan 5 for the first time? Need tips on getting started with the new Summary of Findings tables? Click here for the BRG's Revman 5 Tips page.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) moves to monthly submission in 2010!
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2010 Submission dates are available in PDF format.
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