The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre has announced that everyone in Canada with access to the Internet will now be able to view the full content of The Cochrane Library, an on-line resource that provides evaluations on health treatments.
The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre, in partnership with the Canadian Health Libraries Association, has successfully secured a national license to The Cochrane Library. The license provides a subscription for every Canadian with access to the Internet to benefit from the immense volume of health information found in The Cochrane Library. While this new access will help inform health consumers, healthcare providers will also benefit from this pilot project. Healthcare practitioners will save valuable time to research the best patient treatment options through easy access to this wealth of health information.
The Cochrane Library contains high quality health care information, including Systematic Reviews from The Cochrane Collaboration. These Reviews bring together research on the effects of health care and are considered the gold standard for determining the relative effectiveness of different interventions.
The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane.org) is a UK registered international charity and claims to be the world's leading producer of systematic Reviews. It has been demonstrated that Cochrane Systematic Reviews are of comparable or better quality and are updated more often than the Reviews published in print journals.
