The Cochrane Back Review Group submitted one protocol for The Cochrane Library 2011, issue 10. Our numbers stand at 56 published reviews (including one review of diagnostic test accuracy and six withdrawn reviews) and 14 published protocols (including two protocols for reviews of diagnostic test accuracy). We submitted 116 new records this quarter, making a total of 3725 records in CENTRAL.
New Protocol
Exercise therapy for acute non-specific low-back pain, W IJzelenberg.
Personnel
Greetings! I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new Managing Editor of the Cochrane Back Review Group. I spent the past several years working on my PhD at the University of British
Columbia, and I graduated this past November. My graduate research examined the impact of psychological stress on biological outcomes such as cortisol and markers of systemic inflammation. For example, my
dissertation aimed to differentiate the biological impact of acute versus chronic stressors in children and adolescents. My findings indicated that the simple presence of an acute or chronic stressor was not reliably
associated with biological outcomes, whereas exposure to an acute event in the context of chronic interpersonal stress had a profound biological impact. I have published several papers in the field of Health
Psychology and presented my work at numerous academic conferences in North America and Europe.
After ten years of living and studying in Vancouver, I returned home to Toronto in June of 2011. Although I miss the ocean air and salmon sashimi, I am very happy to be closer to my family and to experience consecutive days of sunshine. I am thrilled to be a part of the Back Group.
2010 Impact Factor Reports
The data are in! A recent report by Thompson Reuters indicates that The Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews' Impact Factor has increased for the fourth consecutive year. The 2010 CDSR impact factor is 6.186 indicating that a review published in the CDSR in 2008 or 2009 was cited an average of 6.186 times in 2010.
The Back Group continues to do well in the rankings, with an increase from 5.682 to 6.000 (13 publications cited 78 times). Reviews published by the Back Group were accessed in full-text format on average 1107.89 times during 2010 (54 articles accessed 59,826 times). This is an increase of six per cent on the 2009 figure of 1038.31 (54 articles accessed 56,069 times).
The CBRG impact factor compares favourably to other journals in its category - Spine has an impact factor of 2.510 and Pain has an impact factor of 5.355.
Training Cochrane Canada has announced the Live Late 2011 Webinar Series. Webinar topics include Communicating using graphs, Priority-setting for (Cochrane) reviews, and A primer to
Cochrane diagnostic test accuracy reviews. Also, check out the newly released online GRADE and summary of findings learning modules. For more details about the webinars and online modules, please
visit http://ccnc.cochrane.org/cochrane-canada-live-webinars. Also, be sure to bookmark http://www.cochrane.org/tags/news-events/workshops to keep abreast of all training
opportunities through the Cochrane Collaboration. Scholarship Opportunity for Authors in Developing Countries New CENTRAL Software New PubMed Health Website Available Cochrane Colloquium I'm still getting accustomed to using Archie and RevMan; so, for the next few months I'm going to share some helpful tips that I have picked up from my colleagues. Hopefully you will learn
something too! Changing Author Details and Ordering However, you can use RevMan to choose the authors in the list and their order. For example, to change author ordering: (1) Expand the Review Information and Authors headings in the outline; and (2) Right-click the
name of the author you wish to move, and choose Move Up or Move Down. For more information, see the RevMan5 user guide: http://www.igh.org/Cochrane/rm5userguide.pdf. That's all for now. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the newsletter, please feel free to contact me at tmarin@iwh.on.ca. Have a wonderful month!
Applications are invited for The Cochrane Collaboration Aubrey Sheiham Public Health and Primary Care Scholarship for health workers, consumers and researchers living in developing countries. This is not a call for
new reviews but rather for those who have already registered a title with the relevant Cochrane Review Group. This is a 3-month scholarship to develop skills in preparing systematic reviews of health care interventions
within the Cochrane Collaboration. Applicants must have agreed to a review topic before 1st August 2011 with the relevant Cochrane Review Group. Application deadline: 31 October 2011. For more information, login
to Archie and then visit http://www.cochrane.org/docs/Fellowshipsandscholarships.htm#ASPHPCS.
We submitted 116 new records this quarter, making a total of 3725 records in CENTRAL, which will be published in the October Issue next month. This was the last CENTRAL submission using the existing
software. We are looking forward to the roll-out of the new Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS) software, scheduled to come online mid-September. We will let you know when to expect the first 2012 issue of
CENTRAL, and review the enhancements added by the CRS.
The National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Biotechnology Information have released the new and improved PubMed Health website. Focusing on reviews of clinical effectiveness research, PubMed
Health provides easy-to-read summaries for consumers, as well as full technical reports. Please follow this link for more details: http://www.cochrane.org/news/news-events/current-news/new-pubmed-health-website-available.
Don't forget! The 19th Cochrane Colloquium will be taking place in Madrid from 19 to 22 October. The full program of workshops and meetings is available on the Colloquium website: http://colloquium.cochrane.org/.Back to basics
RevMan does not allow authors details to be edited, but instead relies on data from Archie. If you have a user account, you can modify your own details in Archie. Any changes to contact details will be updated
when your review is checked out from Archie.Teresa