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Fq7pjksnobn7c39ineej Tracey Remmington
Needed 06 Sep '19
Acknowledgement
Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders
Blood disorders
Consumer referee to comment on draft review 'Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for pain management in sickle cell disease'
Skills: Consumer Input
We are looking for a consumer or consumer representative to comment on a draft review. We set a three-week deadilne for comments to be submitted and provide a checklist for referees to use (if needed). For further information, please see our we... show more
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Default profile Jia Xi Han
Needed 27 Sep '19
Acknowledgement
Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
Public health
Consumer reviewer for a Cochrane review
Skills: Peer Review - Consumer
A Cochrane review managed by the Effective Care and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group is due to be submitted by the end August as a draft. It is titled 'Organised trauma systems and designated trauma centres for improving outcomes in injured patie... show more
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Default profile Sarah Davies
Needed 02 Sep '19
Acknowledgement
Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems
Developmental, psychosocial & learning problems
Consumer reviewer required for a review on video feedback for attachment security in under fives.
Skills: Consumer Input
We are looking for someone to provide comments on a review on video feedback for attachment security in children under 5s from the point of a consumer (perhaps a parent or carer). The task will take a few hours and we will provide guidance on the ... show more
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Default profile Sarah Davies
Needed 30 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems
Developmental, psychosocial & learning problems
Consumer input required for a review of interventions for improving children's dietary intake and physical activity behaviours
Skills: Consumer Input
We are looking for a consumer to provide comments on a review looking at caregiver involvement in interventions for improving children's dietary intake and physical activity behaviours. You do not need a lot of experience to complete this task and... show more
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Default profile Sheila Tynes
Needed 31 Dec '19
Payment
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Methodologist Needed to develop Systematic Reviews
Skills: Inclusion/Exclusion, Question Formulation, Statistical Analysis, Summary of Findings Tables, Guideline development, GRADE, PICO annotation
I have a potential client (medical society) who is seeking a methodologist to assist in developing systematic reviews for their guidelines. Experience with GRADE and developing evidence tables preferred but not required. Expertise in developing sy... show more
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Myvnxqzvm0s7yfqfv8nh Emma Dennett
Needed 09 Sep '19
Airways
Lungs & airways
Seeking people to help with priority-setting
Skills: Consumer Input, Clinical Input, Review Prioritisation
We are seeking members for a new priority-setting advisory group. The group will work with the Cochrane Airways Editorial team to identify review topics and rank them in terms of priority (how important the questions are to people making decisions... show more
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Yzvfbudlg7zw6hqkjw7h Cathryn Broderick
Needed 28 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Vascular
Heart & circulation
Cochrane Vascular needs consumer input on a protocol investigating which interventions prevent bilateral amputation in dysvascular patients
Skills: Consumer Input, Peer Review - Consumer
We are looking for people to comment on a protocol assessing the effects of non-surgical interventions on contralateral limb tissue loss and amputation in dysvascular patients who have already had a primary major lower limb amputation. Undergoing ... show more
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Yzvfbudlg7zw6hqkjw7h Cathryn Broderick
Needed 28 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Vascular
Heart & circulation
Cochrane Vascular needs consumer input for a protocol investigating if sex should be considered when treating pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs)
Skills: Consumer Input, Peer Review - Consumer
We are looking for people to comment on the protocol ‘Sex as a prognostic factor for mortality in adults with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism’. Biological differences between the sexes can result in different health risks, disease incidence,... show more
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Wuj1qvkrlnjbecl5nwgv Ann Jones
Needed 28 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Lungs & airways
Consumer input for a protocol on fluid therapy for children in hospital with bronchiolitis
Skills: Consumer Input
We are looking for someone with knowledge, experience or interest in fluid therapy for children with bronchiolitis who are being treated in hospital to read and comment on a draft protocol titled "Fluid therapy for children hospitalised with bronc... show more
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Default profile Jia Xi Han
Needed 30 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Musculoskeletal
Rheumatology
Translation and data extraction of Turkish clinical trial article
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Turkish to English
We have a Turkish clinical trial article (~6 pages in pdf format) included in our Cochrane review, 'Glucocorticoid injections for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)'. We will send a blank data extraction form for details of the study to be extr... show more
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Default profile Jia Xi Han
Needed 30 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Musculoskeletal
Rheumatology
Translation & possible data extraction of Chinese clinical trial article
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Chinese to English
We have a Chinese clinical trial article (less than 2 pages in pdf format) that will possibly included in our Cochrane Review 'Glucocorticoid injections for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)'. We require the Methods section of this article tra... show more
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Vfh1iwu6hiwxqhki1hqn Huisi Wang
Needed 31 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Complementary & alternative medicine
Find a chance to do autoimmune research
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from to , Searching, Summary of Findings Tables
I'm a master degree student major in combination of traditional Chinese Medicine and western medicine. I was major in accupuncture,moxibustion and massage for bachelor degree. In September 2019,it will be my second year in master degree. So now ... show more
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Vmkna4ktggek6ia0zh6d Diego R Kleinubing
Needed 31 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Hepato-Biliary
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Translation needed
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Norwegian to English
Dear All, We need Norwedian to English translation. We have a paper with four pages that needs translation for Covidence data extraction stage. Best Regards, Diego K
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Bcd4unxclwivotyvdbqy Makalapua Motu’apuaka
Needed 09 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Fertility Regulation
Gynaecology
Consumer reviewer for a protocol on Pain management for medical abortion before 14 weeks gestation
Skills: Consumer Input, Peer Review - Consumer
Our CRG is looking for a consumer reviewer for our protocol on pain management for medical abortion before 14 weeks gestation. We would like to invite consumers to provide the patient/carer perspective in reading this protocol. There is a two week... show more
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Bcd4unxclwivotyvdbqy Makalapua Motu’apuaka
Needed 09 Aug '19
Fertility Regulation
Gynaecology
Consumer reviewer for a protocol of Immediate versus delayed insertion of postabortal contraceptive implants for contraception.
Skills: Consumer Input, Peer Review - Consumer
Our CRG is looking for a consumer reviewer for our protocol on immediate versus delayed insertion of postabortion contraceptive implants for contraception. We would like to invite consumers to provide the patient/carer perspective in reading this ... show more
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P0pxtg2rtzusqnz5mc6f Jansil Amit
Needed 20 Aug '19
Acknowledgement, Payment
Neonatal
Neonatal care
Translation of two chinese articles to english
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Chinese to English
Two randomized controlled trials conducted in China will be included in a Meta-analysis on Intratracheal Administration of Budesonide using Surfactant as the Vehicle among Preterm Infants to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. The study will be ... show more
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Dnhb8blizunqjhjcfle6 Lyubov Lytvyn
Needed 30 Aug '19
Making Grade the Irresistible Choice (MAGIC)
Endocrine & metabolic
Seeking patient partner for guideline panel with experience of SGLT2– July 2019-October 2019, approx 10 hours total
Skills: Consumer Input, Protocol Development, Question Formulation, Report Writing, Peer Review - Consumer, Summary of Findings Tables, Guideline development, GRADE
We're looking for patient partners to join our international guideline panel team to update recommendations on a new type of anti-diabetes drug (SGLT2 inhibitors) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes. *Why are we doing this?* There are benefits... show more
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Default profile souheila karbia
Needed 18 Aug '20
Consumer & communication strategies
Post-édition de résumés de revues Cochrane de l'anglais vers le français
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from English to French
L’équipe Traduction de Cochrane France traduit chaque mois plus d’une soixantaine de résumés des revues Cochrane nouvellement publiées ou mises à jour. Cochrane produit deux résumés pour chaque revue publiée : un résumé en « langage simplifié » (... show more
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Default profile Louis-Charles Desbiens
Needed 30 Sep '19
Acknowledgement, Payment
Heart & circulation
Translation of articles in Korean
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Korean to English
Thiazide diuretics and fracture risk: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials In the conduct of a systematic review evaluating the effect of thiazide diuretics on fracture in randomized clinical trials, we are looking fo... show more
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Default profile Louis-Charles Desbiens
Needed 30 Sep '19
Acknowledgement, Payment
Heart & circulation
Translation of articles in Hebrew
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Hebrew to English
Thiazide diuretics and fracture risk: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials In the conduct of a systematic review evaluating the effect of thiazide diuretics on fracture in randomized clinical trials, we are looking fo... show more
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Default profile Teo Quay
Needed 31 Oct '19
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Anaesthesia
Pain & anaesthesia
Cochrane Anaesthesia Seeking Author Team for Pre-Operative Fasting (in Children) Review
Skills: Data Extraction, Clinical Input, Inclusion/Exclusion, Question Formulation, Report Writing, Risk of Bias Assessment, Screening, Searching, Statistical Analysis, Summary of Findings Tables, GRADE
Cochrane Anaesthesia is looking for a team of qualified authors to help update a large, out-of-date Cochrane review — CARG1002 Preoperative fasting for preventing perioperative complications ***in children*** — last updated in 2009 with the suppor... show more
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Default profile Andrea Cradduck-Bamford
Needed 16 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
Effective practice & health systems
Peer Review - CONSUMER INPUT - Early Warning Systems and Rapid Response Systems for the prevention of patient deterioration on acute adult hospital wards
Skills: Consumer Input, Peer Review - Consumer
It is estimated that 10% of patients deteriorate in hospital, resulting in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission, cardiac arrest, or death. To improve patient safety, Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Rapid Response Systems (RRS) have been implemented... show more
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Default profile seba Jro
Needed 01 Oct '19
Methods
Seeking an author for a review who can develop search strategies, drafting and screen records
Skills: Data Extraction, Inclusion/Exclusion, Risk of Bias Assessment, Screening, Statistical Analysis, Summary of Findings Tables
We are seeking authors to join an existing author team for meta-analysis review looking at nutrition and NCDs. You would need to be able to develop search strategies, run them and screen records, extracting and drafting. Thank you very much in a... show more
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Default profile Teo Quay
Needed 01 Oct '19
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Anaesthesia
Pain & anaesthesia
Cochrane Anaesthesia Seeking Author Team for Pre-Operative Fasting Review
Skills: Data Extraction, Clinical Input, Inclusion/Exclusion, Qualitative Analysis, Report Writing, Risk of Bias Assessment, Screening, Searching, Statistical Analysis, Summary of Findings Tables, GRADE
Cochrane Anaesthesia is looking for a team of qualified authors to help update a large, out-of-date Cochrane review — CARG1001 Preoperative fasting for adults to prevent perioperative complications — last updated in 2003 with the support of Cochra... show more
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Zj0ugel8ylzflm1dsxzy Jessica Hendon
Needed 05 Aug '19
Common Mental Disorders
Mental health
Possible new subscribers to our YouTube Channel and Instagram accounts and your views
Skills: Consumer Input, Clinical Input, Review Dissemination/Knowledge Translation: from to
We recently set up a YouTube channel for our Cochrane Group to start to share some videos we have made including of some visual summaries of our work. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_YdllzWWQoSwCAD1HLbslg/ We also have an Instagram account... show more
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Default profile Theresa Bengough
Needed 06 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Consumers and Communication
Public health
Translation of portuguese article
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Portuguese to English
For a qualitative evidence synthesis on factors that influence women’s engagement with breastfeeding support (https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013115/abstract) we are searching for a portuguese native speaker translating... show more
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Default profile Anja Fog Heen
Needed 30 Sep '19
Authorship
Making Grade the Irresistible Choice (MAGIC)
Heart & circulation
Seeking patient partner for guideline panel with experience of severe, aortic stenosis - July 2019-September 2019, approx 10 hours total
Skills: Consumer Input, Protocol Development, Question Formulation, Report Writing, Peer Review - Consumer, Summary of Findings Tables, Guideline development, GRADE
We're looking for patient partners to join our international guideline panel team to update recommendations on transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement for patients with severe, symptomatic, aortic stenosis. *Why are we doing this?* ... show more
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Default profile Sadia Janjua
Needed 06 Sep '19
Acknowledgement
Airways
Lungs & airways
Data extraction and assessment of risk of bias of randomised trials for a review on telehealthcare in COPD
Skills: Data Extraction, Risk of Bias Assessment
This review is part of a programme grant from the NIHR awarded to the Cochrane Airways group over 3 years. We have included over 50 randomised trials, and are looking for people to help with extracting outcome data and doing the risk of bias asse... show more
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Default profile Anna Gavine
Needed 30 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Neonatal
Neonatal care
Help needed to translate a paper from Korean to English
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Korean to English
We are updating a Systematic Review on massage for promoting growth and development in preterm and low birthweight babies. We need help translating a paper from Korean into English for data extraction and risk of bias assessment using a standard t... show more
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Hjs9dedlbxad5u2eavue Jennifer Dawson
Needed 10 May '20
Acknowledgement
Other
Cochrane-Wikipedia Project
Skills: Review Dissemination/Knowledge Translation: from to
Help improve the quality of health-related evidence online by participating in the Cochrane-Wikipedia Project! Cochrane and Wikipedia are working together to share high-quality health-related evidence with a broad audience. -There are over 32... show more
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Y1rr6va0jzffdaaav2hq Giok Ong
Needed 15 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Heart
Heart & circulation
Help needed to translate a scientific paper from Czech into English (as part of in this large global systematic review and network meta-analysis)
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Czech to English
Dr Anair Beverly (systematic reviewer and anaesthetist in Oxford) and I (Dr Giok Ong, systematic reviewer) work at the NHS Blood and Transplant Systematic Review Initiative at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and also have associations with ... show more
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Y1rr6va0jzffdaaav2hq Giok Ong
Needed 16 Sep '19
Acknowledgement
Heart
Heart & circulation
Help needed to translate scientific papers from Japanese into English (as part of in this large global systematic review and network meta-analysis)
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Japanese to English, Inclusion/Exclusion
Dr Anair Beverly (systematic reviewer and anaesthetist in Oxford) and I (Dr Giok Ong, systematic reviewer) work at the NHS Blood and Transplant Systematic Review Initiative at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and also have associations with ... show more
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Y1rr6va0jzffdaaav2hq Giok Ong
Needed 15 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Heart
Heart & circulation
Help needed to translate scientific papers from Chinese into English (as part of in this large global systematic review and network meta-analysis)
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Chinese to English, Inclusion/Exclusion
Dr Anair Beverly (systematic reviewer and anaesthetist in Oxford) and I (Dr Giok Ong, systematic reviewer) work at the NHS Blood and Transplant Systematic Review Initiative at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and also have associations with ... show more
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Y1rr6va0jzffdaaav2hq Giok Ong
Needed 15 Sep '19
Acknowledgement
Heart
Heart & circulation
Help needed to translate scientific papers from Korean into English (as part of in this large global systematic review and network meta-analysis)
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Korean to English, Inclusion/Exclusion
Dr Anair Beverly (systematic reviewer and anaesthetist in Oxford) and I (Dr Giok Ong, systematic reviewer) work at the NHS Blood and Transplant Systematic Review Initiative at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and also have associations with ... show more
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Default profile Rita Champaneria
Needed 30 Aug '19
Acknowledgement
Injuries
Orthopaedics & trauma
Help needed to translate a paper from Japanese to English
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Japanese to English, Inclusion/Exclusion
We have been funded through an NIHR Programme grant to produce a set of Cochrane reviews. The literature searches done for one of the reviews identified a Japanese paper. I can send a pdf of the paper that need translating once I've received it... show more
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Am247lyhaxowehnbl20v Jennifer Hanratty
Needed 01 Aug '19
Authorship, Acknowledgement, Payment
Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems
Developmental, psychosocial & learning problems
Data extraction for review on psychosocial interventions for anger and aggression in young children
Skills: Data Extraction, Risk of Bias Assessment
We have a very large number of included studies and need support with data extraction. Those contributing to data extraction will receive an acknowledgment in the review. Anyone willing to commit to a substantial contribution to data extraction ... show more
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Default profile Ian Light
Needed 11 Dec '20
Acknowledgement
Acute Respiratory Infections
Infectious disease
Reducing antibiotic Use for Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
Skills: Clinical Input
A continuing learning and prescribing project for prescribers and patients to recognise what is a viral infection that does not require antibiotics eg Runny nose mild sore throat and some coughing in a healthy twenty year old person versus bacter... show more
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V2qeyoio9bd5w5i5bg93 Laura Downie
Needed 30 Oct '19
Eyes and Vision
Other
Contribute to crowdsourcing critical appraisal of research studies using an exciting, free online platform (CrowdCARE: crowdcare.unimelb.edu.au)
Skills: Consumer Input, Peer Review - Consumer, Risk of Bias Assessment
Dear Cochrane TaskExchangers, We have developed a free, online tool that teaches research critical appraisal and facilitates the sharing of appraisals amongst a global community (CrowdCARE, Crowdsourcing Critical Appraisal of Research Evidence:... show more
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