TaskExchange

Needed 30 Apr '19

Injuries

Emergency

Help with dissemination: Blood storage review

Skills: Review Dissemination/Knowledge Translation: from to

Spread the word! Use the updated review to inform practice in your field. Re-tweet a link to the review, and help us by including the review in relevant Wikipedia pages.

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Sebastian Jr

Needed 31 Dec '19

Authorship

Other

Data Extraction

Skills: Data Extraction, Report Writing

I am Sebastian, Head of mind research team (MRT). We are an international expert team in conducting meta-analyses. We are looking for collaboration with other active researchers that share the same interest. Our research focus is nutrition and its... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Anna Noel-Storr

Cochrane Crowd

Join our collaborative volunteer effort to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence

Skills: RCT identification

This is a great way to get involved and help Cochrane identify trials for Cochrane’s Central Register of Controlled Trials, a vital resource that helps systematic reviews around the world.
- No experience necessary
- A task you can dip into whenever you have a few spare minutes
- Work on records in areas of interest to you
- A great way to help and to learn!

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Kevin Su

Needed 01 Feb '19

Acknowledgement

Vascular

Rheumatology

German Translations for Article Screening for Cochrane Review

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from German to English, Inclusion/Exclusion, Screening

Need a screening translation to see if the following article fulfills the criteria for inclusion. Will need full translation if fufills the inclusion criteria. Criteria as follows Inclusion 1. Primary Raynaud phenomenon 2. Randomised ... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Kevin Su

Needed 01 Feb '19

Acknowledgement

Vascular

Rheumatology

Hebrew Translations for Article Screening for Cochrane Review

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Hebrew to English, Inclusion/Exclusion, Screening

Need a screening translation to see if the following article fulfills the criteria for inclusion. Will need full translation if fufills the inclusion criteria. Criteria as follows Inclusion 1. Primary Raynaud phenomenon 2. Randomised ... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Kevin Su

Needed 01 Feb '19

Authorship, Acknowledgement

Vascular

Rheumatology

Danish Translations for Article Screening for Cochrane Review

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Danish to English, Inclusion/Exclusion, Screening

Need a screening translation to see if the following article fulfills the criteria for inclusion. Will need full translation if fufills the inclusion criteria. Criteria as follows Inclusion 1. Primary Raynaud phenomenon 2. Randomised ... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Kevin Su

Needed 01 Feb '19

Acknowledgement

Vascular

Rheumatology

French Translations for Article Screening for Cochrane Review

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from French to English, Inclusion/Exclusion, Screening

Need a screening translation to see if the following 3 articles fulfills the criteria for inclusion. Will need full translation if fufills the inclusion criteria. Criteria as follows Inclusion 1. Primary Raynaud phenomenon 2. Randomis... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Kevin Su

Needed 01 Feb '19

Acknowledgement

Vascular

Rheumatology

Italian Translations for Article Screening for Cochrane Review

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Italian to English, Inclusion/Exclusion

Need a screening translation to see if 2 articles fulfills the criteria for inclusion. Will need full translation if fulfills the inclusion criteria. Criteria as follows Inclusion 1. Primary Raynaud phenomenon 2. Randomised trials, Pa... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

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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Entry level - good for growing skills

Natasa Pavlovic

Needed 16 Feb '19

Other

Volunteer translators wanted to test a new course on machine translation post-editing (German, Polish, Croatian)

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from to

We are looking for volunteer translators working into German, Polish or Croatian to take our short (30-45 min) course on machine translation and post-editing, free of charge, and fill out a very brief survey that would help us evaluate and improve... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Juan Franco

Needed 20 Jan '19

Acknowledgement

Skin

Skin disorders

Turkish study for Cochrane review

Skills: Searching

We need the full report of this study Aksungur, V. L.; Mustafa, S. O.; Hasanoglu, O. The antipruritic effect of terfenadine. [Turkish] Turkderm Deri Hastaliklari ve Frengi Arsivi 1990;24(1):35-42

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Juan Franco

Needed 20 Jan '19

Skin

Skin disorders

Japanese study for Cochrane Review

Skills: Searching

We need assistance in retrieving the reports of this study (via a Library, contact with authors, etc.): Ohkuma, M. Treatment of pruritus by Chinese drugs with external application and oral antihistamine Wakan iyakugaku zasshi (journal of tradi... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Caitlin O'Connell

Needed 01 Apr '19

Neonatal

Consumer & communication strategies

Consumer Engagement: Parents of Preterm or NICU Neonates

Skills: Consumer Input

Cochrane Neonatal is looking to engage parents of preterm or NICU neonates, as stakeholders in the neonatal patient community. We would like to have parents of neonates provide input on Cochrane Neonatal's reviews for 2019. We are also looking for... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Munazzah Rafique

Needed 19 Apr '19

Authorship

Gynaecology

meta analysis of infertility starting from step one

Skills: Qualitative Analysis, Report Writing

I have some topics to do meta-analysis but it will be my first experience, therefore, I need someone with prior experience to guide me step by step through meta-analysis

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Nicole Pitcher

Needed 31 Dec '18

Authorship, Acknowledgement

Consumer & communication strategies

Proof-reading of Cochrane review abstracts in French

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from English to French

Cochrane France is looking for enthusiastic Francophones to help us reach our latest goal: translate all the abstracts of newly published or updated Cochrane reviews into French! If you want to help us and join our worldwide network of transla... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Taiga Wakabayashi

Needed 31 Mar '20

Hepato-Biliary

Methods

Laparoscopic repeat liver resection for liver diseases

Skills: Review - Methods

Technological surgical innovations have made it possible to use laparoscopic surgery in patients with pre‑existing adhesions or cicatricial changes. However, laparoscopic repeat liver resection (LRLR) still represents a challenge for surgeons, not... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Rubén López-Bueno

Needed 31 Aug '19

Authorship

Public health

Looking for a research stage related to physical activity in the workplace

Skills: Report Writing, Review - Clinical Content, Review - Methods, Searching

As I'm awarded with an erasmus predoctorate grant I'm looking for an institution to stay in for about two months. My subject is related to physical activity in the workplace.

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Laura Downie

Needed 31 Jan '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, 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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Entry level - good for growing skills

Sasha Hermosa

Needed 28 Feb '19

Ageing

Full text screen of Finnish article for systematic review on sexual activity among older adults.

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Finnish to English, Screening

We would greatly appreciate your help screening a Finnish full text article for our review. You would be provided with the inclusion / exclusion criteria and the article. Please let us know urgently if you are able to assist.

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Emma Sydenham

Needed 01 Mar '19

Acknowledgement

Injuries

Orthopaedics & trauma

Have you had brain surgery?

Skills: Consumer Input

We are finalising the update of a review on decompressive craniectomy (removal of a piece of skull bone to reduce pressure on the brain) after traumatic brain injury. We invite input from people who have had this procedure.

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Omer Hajelssedig

Needed 31 Dec '18

Authorship

Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Functional Bowel Disorders

Gastroenterology & hepatology

Translation of eligible studies in Japanese to English for a metaanalysis in Diagnostic test accuracy of NBI endoscopy in Barrett's esophagus

Skills: Translation - Linguistic: from Japanese to English

To carry a seprate search in Japanese litrature for eligible studies and to extract the study data and results then translated into English.

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Elena Kostova

Needed 28 Feb '19

Gynaecology

Consumer reviewers wanted! Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility

Skills: Review - Consumer

Are you interested in health evidence, gynaecology, fertility, and embryology? Help us evaluate and review our protocols and reviews! We believe that consumer input in the evidence we publish is an integral part of what we do. As a consumer revi... show more

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Entry level - good for growing skills

Roopa Lakhanpal

Needed 30 Dec '18

Authorship

Cancer

Review the articles to see if included or excluded

Skills: Screening

Need radiation oncologist or trainee in radiation oncology to go through 7125 articles to see if included or excluded in the Cochrane review

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Entry level - good for growing skills

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