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SOCRATES
SOCRATES 3 (synopsis of Cochrane reviews applicable to emergency services)
1 Specialist Registrars in Emergency Medicine on The Yorkshire Rotation, UK
2 General Practitioner, Leeds, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr P Gilligan
1 Far Moss, Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 7NU, UK; hegartydeirdre@ireland.com
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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you should come easily by what others have laboured hard for". Socrates (399–469 BC)
In this the third article of the SOCRATES series the working party present summaries of the output of the Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups who indeed "have laboured hard" and to whom all of those interested in the practice of evidence based medicine owe a debt of gratitude.
The quality of systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library has been shown to be consistently of a high standard.1,2 Emond et al felt that 12% of the 795 completed reviews in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) from April 2000 were directly relevant to emergency medicine and that more than one third of the CDSR had some relevance to their practice.3 Rowe et al argued that "given the high quality of the Cochrane Reviews, it would
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