Cochrane has published an update to the Rapid Review assessing the effectiveness of quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What was the aim of this review?

Four new reviews and 2 protocols are available in Issue 4 of the 

This article was first published on the Cochrane Library websiteTuberculosis causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease

In this instalment of the CIDG 'Meet the Editor' series, we talk with Dr Eleanor Ochodo, who became a CIDG Editor in January 2020.  Dr Ochodo is a Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer at the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research revolves around evidence-based health care with a focus on diagnostic tests and markers.

Complex Reviews Support Unit: supporting the successful delivery of complex reviews. A workshop, November 2019

Each year in June, Clarivate Analytics publish the Journal Impact Factors of all journals indexed in the Journal Citation Report. The 2018 Journal Impact Factor for CDSR is 7.755, which describes the ratio of the number of citations in 2018 of reviews published in 2016 and 2017 (12,106) to the number of reviews published in 2016 and 2017 (1,561).

LSTM’S Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health leads developments in evidence synthesis for tropical medicine and global health. In the 1990s, we helped establish Cochrane.

Details below on the latest submission to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 12, 2019 from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (reviews and protocols published 1 – 31 December (2019).Three new reviews