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Default profile Marianna Kaye
Needed 08 Oct '20
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Heart
Heart & circulation
Consumer input for review on trypanocidal drugs for late stage, symptomatic Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi infection)
Skills: Consumer Input
We are looking for a patient to provide feedback on a systematic review update. Further details on what this involves are available here: https://heart.cochrane.org/resources/consumer-reviewers. The feedback would provide a layperson's perspe... show more
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Zhdsnilyc37pu5x0hqsv Daniela Gonçalves-Bradley
Needed 17 Oct '20
Acknowledgement
Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
Effective practice & health systems
Help required with screening a paper in Chinese for a review on discharge planning from hospital
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Chinese to English
We are conducting a review on Discharge planning, during which we retrieved one paper in Chinese. We are looking for a fluent Chinese speaker to screen the paper for eligibility against our inclusion criteria. It should not take more than 10m. ... show more
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Default profile Ellen Dougan
Needed 29 Sep '20
Acknowledgement
Epilepsy
Neurology
Arabic translation needed
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Arabic to English
We are looking for someone who can translate a paper from Arabic to English for one of our review teams. If you are able to do this for us please contact me and I can send you the details.
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Default profile Ellen Dougan
Needed 29 Sep '20
Acknowledgement
Epilepsy
Neurology
Japanese translation needed
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Japanese to English
We are looking for someone who can translate a paper from Japanese to English for one of our review teams. If you are able to do this for us please contact me and I can send you the details.
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Hjs9dedlbxad5u2eavue Jennifer Dawson
Needed 30 Nov '20
Acknowledgement
Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care
Pain & anaesthesia
Cochrane-Wikipedia Project: Cochrane Pain, Palliative, and Supportive Care
Skills: Review Dissemination/Knowledge Translation: from to
We are seeking one or two volunteers to help improve evidence shared on Wikipedia related to headache and migraines. This project is a collaboration with the Cochrane Pain, Palliative, and Supportive Care Review Group (PaPaS) and the Musculoskelet... show more
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Default profile Yong Ahn
Needed 08 Oct '20
Authorship
Orthopaedics & trauma
Anterior Cervical Discectomy And Fusion versus Anterior Cervical Corpectomy And Fusion In Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy : A Meta Analysis
Skills: Data Extraction, Qualitative Analysis
Study Design A meta – analysis was conduct on published studies reporting outcomes after Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) or Anterior Cervical Corpectomy and Fusion (ACF) procegures for multilevel ACDF and single or multilevel ACF w... show more
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Default profile Marianna Kaye
Needed 16 Oct '20
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Heart
Heart & circulation
Consumer input for review on vegan dietary pattern for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Skills: Consumer Input
We are looking for a patient to provide feedback on a systematic review update. Further details on what this involves are available here: https://heart.cochrane.org/resources/consumer-reviewers. The feedback would provide a layperson's perspe... show more
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Ziovksyf3ktpnawetrec Ronald Flumignan
Needed 13 Sep '20
Acknowledgement
Heart & circulation
Japanese to English translation of 1 article for cardiovascular disease systematic review
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Japanese to English
Our team is seeking assistance in translating 1 article from Japanese to English, in preparation for our systematic review. The article is brief (only 4 pages). If you are able to assist with this translation task, please send me a message and ... show more
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Default profile Sarah Carrier
Needed 01 Oct '20
Acknowledgement
Orthopaedics & trauma
Polish to English translation of 1 article for brain injury systematic review
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Polish to English
Our team is seeking assistance in translating 1 article from Polish to English, in preparation for full-text screening for our systematic review. The article is brief - 4 pages. If you are able to assist with this translation task, please send ... show more
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Default profile TD COS
Needed 31 Jan '21
Authorship
Endocrine & metabolic
Invitation to persons with experience of thyroid disorders, their carers and patients advocates to join the research team
Skills: Consumer Input
A group of researchers in thyroid disorders is looking for persons who have experience thyroid disorders as well as their carers interested in the research in the subject to be part of the research team. Patient advocates are also welcome. We welc... show more
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J5lxtbjnjalhgb0jqegi Teo Quay
Needed 30 Sep '20
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Anaesthesia
Pain & anaesthesia
Cochrane Anaesthesia Seeking Author Team for Review: 'Supplemental perioperative steroids for surgical patients with adrenal insufficiency'
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 take over and produce a review for the vacant title CARG097: Supplemental perioperative steroids for surgical patients with adrenal insufficiency. This is a previously withdrawn re... show more
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Jqkt4e8a1msubl1w18vd Muriah Umoquit
Needed 01 Jan '21
Acknowledgement
Other
Creator of video for social media
Skills: Review Dissemination/Knowledge Translation: from to
Cochrane is across many social media platforms - Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram...and now TikTok! The audience is mostly university students and early career professionals. You can look us up at @cochraneorg We are looking for vi... show more
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P2wtbpbbcl3adzmgp91b Joyaa Antares
Needed 31 Aug '20
Acknowledgement
Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems
Child health
Help us with our risk of bias analysis and data extraction by contacting study authors in mainland China
Skills: Data Extraction, Qualitative Analysis
Our review is: Non‐surgical and non‐pharmacological interventions for congenital muscular torticollis in the 0‐5 year age group. The protocol is here: Here's our review - https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD012987/full ... show more
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Default profile Sarah Carrier
Needed 01 Oct '20
Acknowledgement
Orthopaedics & trauma
Romanian to English translation of 1 article for brain injury systematic review
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Romanian to English
Our team is seeking assistance in translating 1 article from Romanian to English, in preparation for full-text screening for our systematic review. The article is relatively brief - 11 pages. If you are able to assist with this translation task... show more
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Default profile Sarah Carrier
Needed 01 Sep '20
Acknowledgement
Orthopaedics & trauma
German to English translation of 3 articles for brain injury systematic review
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from German to English
Our team is seeking assistance in translating 3 articles from German to English, in preparation for full-text screening for our systematic review. The articles are relatively brief - no longer than 12 pages. If you are able to assist with this ... show more
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Default profile Jessica Castner
Needed 31 Aug '20
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Public Health
Emergency
Librarian/bibliometric informatics for review and refinement of our protocol's databases, search terms and search strategy.
Skills: Protocol Development, Searching
Review and refine our protocol's databases, search terms and search strategy. Recommend specific use of subject heading or keyword hierarchies for efficient and comprehensive search execution. Seeking input on database-specific wildcard characters... show more
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Vc76rmdbrouyjhur5md2 Yasir Mahmood
Needed 31 Dec '20
Authorship
Methodology Review
Other
The Critical Analysis of Vitamin D Studies and Clinical Trials
Skills: Qualitative Analysis, Peer Review - Clinical Content, Peer Review - Methods
Vitamin D is considered as a vital nutrient for the proper bone health. Some observational studies showed vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in many disease conditions. The results of some epidemiological studies revealed the connection between geo... show more
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Default profile Begum Irmak On Seker
Needed 31 Aug '20
Acknowledgement
Neurology
Translation of one article from Russian for a review of prognostic models in multiple sclerosis
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Russian to English, Inclusion/Exclusion
We are conducting a Cochrane Review titled "Prognostic models for predicting clinical disease progression, worsening and activity in people with multiple sclerosis". During screening we came across a promising abstract from a study reported in Rus... show more
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Vvqgxzdw4bj2flezdivm Muhammad Zarar Mughal
Needed 30 Oct '20
Acknowledgement
Infectious Diseases
Effective practice & health systems
Making COVID-19 Inactive by Heat Treatment Procedures.
Skills: Protocol Development
The sensitivity of COVID-19 to temperature is described as under:- 4 D Celsius: Remain active for indefinite time. 22 D Celsius: Survive for 14 days. 37 D Celsius: Survive for 2 days. 56 D Celsius: Survive for 30 minutes. 70 D Celsius: Surviv... show more
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Default profile Sami Almustanyir
Needed 21 Apr '21
Payment
Public health
Biostatistician needed!
Skills: Statistical Analysis
Hello I am a master student in Research with focus on Biostatistics. I need a biostatistician as a private tutor. We will meet on Zoom.us and discuss concepts in Biostatistics. The reward will be payments per hour (hourly payments). I can on... show more
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Default profile Dr Otis Morine
Needed 31 Dec '20
Authorship
Other
Seeking an author for drafting
Skills: Data Extraction, Report Writing, Screening
We are seeking authors to join our team for meta-analysis review projects in all medical fields. Our team is expert in meta-analysis with high impact publications. If you have time and interest to teamwork aware me. Our team need the researcher fo... show more
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Default profile carlos martinez castro
Needed 29 Jan '21
Authorship
Gastroenterology & hepatology
gallstone-associated acute pancreatitis
Skills: Clinical Input, Peer Review - Clinical Content
I want to evaluated the evolution of the treatment with the endoscopy and medical therapy. to evalue if the systemic complications and mortality are reduced with endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography with sphincterotomy and early antibio... show more
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Anzflnyg42kkqni58bkk Mohamed Awale
Needed 01 Feb '21
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Colorectal
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Anal Fissure, Anal fistula and Hemorrhoids in Somalia. A Retrospective hospital study
Skills: Clinical Input
Awale Mohamed Abdullahi MD12,MMed , Mohamed Abdikarim MD1 1. International Hospital Mogadishu, 2. Somali National university and Simad University Corresponding author: Mohamed Abdullahi Awale (drawaale@gmail.com) (+252617625656) ... show more
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Anzflnyg42kkqni58bkk Mohamed Awale
Needed 26 Jan '21
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Breast Cancer
Cancer
The Obstacles of Breast Cancer Management in Somalia: A case report Awale Mohamed Abdullahi MD12,MMed , Mohamed Qooje MD2 Samia Abdullahi MD2 Aden Yusuf2
Skills: Report Writing
Abstract Introduction Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the world and second leading cause of death in the world. There is cultural barrier and discipline conflict of the disease where patients cannot go to breast clinic while there is... show more
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Anzflnyg42kkqni58bkk Mohamed Awale
Needed 26 Jan '21
Authorship
Colorectal
Emergency
Hernia Surgery in Somalia : An Experience of Doctors at International Hospital: Retrospective hospital study
Skills: Clinical Input
Abstract: Introduction : A hernia is the abnormal exit of tissue or an organ, such as the bowel, through the wall of the cavity in which it normally resides. Hernia is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in surgical wards. Obj... show more
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Default profile Norio Watanabe
Needed 31 Dec '20
Authorship
Other
Cochrane Japan International Mobility Programme
Skills: Data Extraction, Inclusion/Exclusion, Protocol Development, Risk of Bias Assessment, Screening, Searching, Statistical Analysis
Focus of placement: Methodology of systematic reviews, Risk of Bias, GRADE, statistics Required skills for applicants: Background in medical or health sciences Skills: Question Formulation, Searching, Inclusion/Exclusion, Data Extraction... show more
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Default profile Ann Merete Møller
Needed 31 Oct '20
Authorship, Acknowledgement
Anaesthesia
Pain & anaesthesia
Emergency orthopaedic surgery - collecting evidence for anaesthetic treatment
Skills: Consumer Input, Data Extraction, Report Writing, Searching
Our research unit works with acute orthopeadic surgery - interventions in the perioperative course. We need exchange students to collect evidence and other task such as interviews with patients and staff, collecting data from patients charts etc.
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Default profile Anita Režić
Needed 06 Nov '20
Geographic Groups
Other
Cochrane Croatia International Mobility programme
Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from to , Consumer Input, Data Extraction, Clinical Input, Inclusion/Exclusion, Protocol Development, Qualitative Analysis, Question Formulation, Report Writing, Peer Review - Clinical Content, Peer Review - Methods, Risk of Bias Assessment, Screening, Searching, Statistical Analysis, Summary of Findings Tables, GRADE, PICO annotation
Cochrane Croatia is excited to once again participate in Cochrane International Mobility programme. We are situated at the University of Split, School of Medicine and are willing to host one person for min. 2 weeks in Spring or Autumn of 2020. ... show more
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Hihynhezqfncvbdpz8r0 Marta Roqué i Figuls
Needed 20 Sep '21
Authorship
Geographic Groups
Other
Cochrane Iberoamerica International Mobility Programme
Skills: Data Extraction, Protocol Development, Question Formulation, Report Writing, Risk of Bias Assessment
Host Cochrane Group: Cochrane Iberoamerica (located in Barcelona, Spain= Primary contact for host Group: Marta Roqué (mroque@santpau.cat) Panel considering applications: Marta Roqué, trainer ; Xavier Bonfill, director ; Gerard Urrútia, co-d... show more
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Default profile Taylor King
Needed 28 Mar '21
Authorship
Fertility Regulation
Gynaecology
Author for Cochrane Fertility Regulation group priory review on: Contraception use in complex patients: Mental health and libido
Skills: Data Extraction, Clinical Input, Inclusion/Exclusion, Protocol Development, Question Formulation, Report Writing, Risk of Bias Assessment, Screening, Statistical Analysis, Summary of Findings Tables, GRADE
The Cochrane Fertility Regulation group is looking for an author to write a review on: Contraception use in complex patients: Mental health and libido. This topic was identified as a high priority topic area. We are looking for a team member to up... show more
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Hjs9dedlbxad5u2eavue Jennifer Dawson
Needed 30 Dec '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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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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Csi3fsqiyshhoewdnhxw Elena Kostova
Needed 01 Nov '20
Acknowledgement
Gynaecology and Fertility
Gynaecology
Consumer reviewers wanted! Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility
Skills: Peer Review - Consumer
Are you interested in health evidence, gynaecology, women's health, and embryology? Have you, a family member, or a friend experienced subfertility? Your opinion matters! Help us evaluate and review our protocols and reviews on various topics i... show more
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