Cochrane Injuries GroupOpen Meeting

Katharine Ker, LSHTM, UK

Carolyn DiGuiseppi, University of Colorado, USA

Rebecca Ivers, University of Sydney, Australia

About the Cochrane Injuries Group

• What does the CIG do?

• Who makes up the CIG?

• What injury prevention research does the CIG do?

• Is the CIG good at what it does?

• How can I get involved?

“What is the CIG?”

One of 50 Review Groups in the Cochrane Collaboration

Prepare, maintain and promote the accessibility of systematic reviews in the prevention, treatment and

rehabilitation of traumatic injury

Systematic reviews are peer refereed and published on the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

“Who makes up the CIG?”

People who prepare, maintain and update Cochrane Reviews, and people who support them in this process

“Who makes up the CIG?”

People who prepare, maintain and update Cochrane Reviews, and people who support them in this process

• 600+ authors

• From 50+ countries (HIC & LMICS)

People who prepare, maintain and update Cochrane Reviews, and people who support them in this process

Editorial team• Co-ordinating Editors (x2)

• Managing Editor

• Trials Search Co-ordinator

• Editors (x8)

Expert contributors

• Peer referees

• Translators

• Consumers

“Who makes up the CIG?”

Editorial base - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Support from editorial team

Training

• face-to-face, online – Cochrane Centres

• annual short course at LSHTM

Support available throughout review process

• technical, methodological, information science

Not just an ‘editorial board’

Injury prevention research?

Prepare, maintain and promote the accessibility of systematic reviews in the prevention, treatment and

rehabilitation of traumatic injury

Injury prevention research?

~35 reviews assessing the effects of injury prevention interventions

• Road safety

• Occupational injury

• Alcohol-related injury

• Violence

“Is the CIG good at what it does?”

Prepare, maintain systematic reviews

104 published reviews, 30 more in progress

Impact factor (2009) = 6.273

CDSR = 5.653

Injury = 2.383

Injury Prevention = 1.453

Accident, Analysis & Prevention = 1.647

“Is the CIG good at what it does?”

Promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews

• Uptake of evidence e.g. NICE, WHO reports

• Cochrane Corner in Injury Prevention

• Capacity building e.g. training

Instigating new research (e.g. CRASH, CRASH2 trials)

“How can I get involved?”Everyone is welcome

Contributors;• Authors• Peer referees• Translators• Consumers

Register interest via the CIG’s website (http://injuries.cochrane.org) or email Emma.Sydenham@Lshtm.ac.uk

No obligation!

Unanswered questions…?

The Cochrane Collaboration - www.cochrane.org

The Cochrane Injuries Group - http://injuries.cochrane.org

The Cochrane Library – www.thecochranelibrary.com