Use of The Cochrane Library
We recommend you use the following resources to help you navigate through the evidence and get the most out of The Cochrane Library.
The Cochrane Library For New Users section.
The National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) Guide to The Cochrane Library.
Introduction to The Cochrane Library (
1.1MB)
Searching The Cochrane Library ( 465KB)
Examples from Practice
The following are examples that illustrate how The Cochrane Library is being used to inform or change practice.
NICS Cochrane user awards
NICS "Evidence into Action" awards are presented at national conferences for presentations that best demonstrate closing an important evidence-practice gap to improve health care in Australia.
The DKV-Cochrane Preis (Germany)
The DKV-Cochrane Preis is awarded annually for evidence-based guidelines development, studies for implementation and evaluation of evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews (meta-analyses) or methodologically outstanding original work, which answers a question relevant to the practice of health care according to the principles of evidence-based medicine.