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A group aiming to develop the methods for producing high quality systematic reviews and to advise Cochrane on how the validity and precision of systematic reviews can be improved. They aim to raise awareness of the adverse effects of interventions, and to promote the inclusion of adverse effects data in Cochrane reviews; to provide educational help to reviewers and users of reviews to spread and deepen understanding of the principles involved in assessing adverse effects; to provide methodological guidance on specific aspects of evaluating adverse effects; to identify areas of methodological uncertainty, and to develop a toolbox for the assessment of adverse effects.

GCI works with organisations all over the world of many different sizes and structures from international NGOs to small, local initiatives and aims to be an inclusive platform for organisations of all types to collaborate on behalf of children with clubfoot.

The Reflection network

Wiley & Co, open access, has published a paper by David Richards, Vania Coulthard and Gunilla Borlin reporting the findings of a systematic literature review of Nursing Research in Europe, entitled 'The State of European Nursing Research: Dead, Alive, or Chronically Diseased? A Systematic Literature Review'.
"Results
We identified 1995 published reports and included 223 from 21 European countries, of which 193 (86.6%) reported studies of primary research only, 30 (13.5%) secondary research, and three (1.4%) a mix of primary and secondary. Methodological description was often poor, misleading, or even absent. One hundred (44.8%) articles reported observational studies, 87 (39.0%) qualitative studies. We found 26 (11.7%) articles reporting experimental studies, 10 (4.5%) of which were randomized controlled trials. We found 29 (13.0%) reports located within a larger program of research. Seventy-six (34.1%) articles reported studies of nursing interventions.
Linking Evidence to Action
European research in nursing reported in the leading nursing journals remains descriptive and poorly described. Only a third of research reports concerned nursing interventions, and a tiny proportion were part of a programmatic endeavor. Researchers in nursing must become better educated and skilled in developing, testing, evaluating, and reporting complex nursing interventions. Editors of nursing journals should insist on systematic reporting of research designs and methods in published articles."

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http://www.reflection-network.eu/about-reflection.php