So what has the Cochrane Collaboration ever done for us? A report card on the first 10 years
Canadian Medical Association JournalPublished 27 September 2004Open access
Jeremy Grimshaw
Citations60
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score0.92
SNIP1.00
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The Cochrane Collaboration is a unique, worldwide not-for-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining, and promoting the accessibility of, systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions.
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The Cochrane Collaboration is a unique, worldwide not-for-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining, and promoting the accessibility of, systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions.[1][1] A decade ago, C.
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