Swiss patients and healthcare practitioners will now have access to over 6500 published systematic reviews in healthcare interventions through one-click access to the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library is a leading resource in evidence-based research across areas including pregnancy, mental health, surgical procedures and preventive care. Cochrane reviews provide independent high-quality evidence to aid healthcare decision making.
Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers and people interested in health. The organisation gathers and summarises the best evidence from research to help make informed choices about treatment. Cochrane contributors, over 37,000 from more than 130 countries, work together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest. Many contributors are world leaders in their fields - medicine, health policy, research methodology, or consumer advocacy. The Cochrane Switzerland team, based at Lausanne and Berne, is active in all language regions of Switzerland.
This newly signed national licence offers free access to the Cochrane Library to all residents in Switzerland, and the establishment of the licence has been made possible thanks to the financial contributions by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS), the Federal Office of Public Health and university libraries. This national license will enable 8.2 million residents in Switzerland access to the Cochrane Library's collection of healthcare databases, including gold-standard Cochrane Systematic Reviews, which help clinicians and consumers make decisions about what treatments are best. The licence will run from 2016 to 2020.
The Cochrane Library is published on behalf of Cochrane by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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