• 1. School of Public Health of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
  • 2. Evidence-based Medicine Center of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
  • 3. College of Atmospheric Science of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
DINGGuo-wu, Email: dinggw@lzu.edu.cn
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Objects  To retrospectively analyze the accepted abstracts by the Cochrane Colloquiums in recent 5 years, so as to learn the advances and development trend for next stage in evidence-based medicine field. Methods Abstracts accepted by the 19th to 23rd Cochrane Colloquiums were collected, and relevant information was extracted. Then, a descriptive analysis was conducted. Outcomes  A total of 2088 abstracts were accepted in recent five Cochrane Colloquiums. Europe contributed the most abstracts, in the top 10 contribution countries, five countries were located in Europe. Colleges/Universities were the major contributing institutes, McMaster University of Canada (165, 7.90%) and Lanzhou University of China (118, 5.65%) were the top two contributing institutions. The number of authors of most accepted abstracts were 3 to 5(1011, 48.42%). The top three topics focused by these abstracts were evidence (417, 19.97%), methodology (412, 19.73%) and risk of bias (220, 10.54%). Conclusions European countries are major contributing countries of abstracts of the Cochrane Colloquium, and colleges/universities are the major contributing institutions. Retrieval and methodology are research hot in recent 5 years. Attention should be paid to breakthrough progress in methodology in future.

Citation: LIUYu, SONGXu-ping, PENGLi-xia, WANGZi-xia, GAOCai-yun, TIANJin-hui, DINGGuo-wu. Development of Evidence-based Medicine: Focus on the Abstracts of the Cochrane Colloquium. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2016, 16(7): 842-846. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20160128 Copy

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