The Cochrane Iberoamerican Center, together with Cochrane Madrid and the Ministry of Health, celebrated on October 1 the day “The Cochrane Library in the framework of evidence-based healthcare” in which they participated: Faustino Blanco González, Secretary General of Health and Consumer Affairs; the Dra. Pilar Aparicio, general director of Public Health, Quality and Innovation; the Dr. Xavier Bonfill, director of the Epidemiology Service of Sant Pau and the Ibero-American Cochrane Center; Mark Wilson, CEO of Cochrane and Dr. Karla Soares, editorial director of the Cochrane Library.
You can check the full program here.
The Ministry of Health finances the subscription to the Cochrane Library open to all citizens of Spain since 2003, when the then Minister of Health Ana Pastor came to our Hospital to sign the corresponding agreement. In those 16 years, tens of millions have been accessed by users. The launch of the new Cochrane Library, which includes a series of improvements with respect to the previous version (you can check them here)was released a year ago, but until now the official presentation has not been made. It was a good time, therefore, to remind all health professionals of the availability of this valuable tool that provides reliable evidence and helps to make informed decisions in order to achieve better health. Since the release of this new version of the Cochrane Library in Spanish, nearly 60,000 full-time documents have been downloaded every month.
During the day, several short communications (in video format) of Latin American personalities linked to Cochrane were also reproduced (can be seen here).
In the afternoon, Ivan Solà, Head of Documentation at the Cochrane Ibero-American Center, gave the workshop “Searches for systematic reviews and other materials in the Cochrane Library”, from which all places were exhausted.
