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The Cochrane Neurological Network

The Cochrane Neurological Network is an entity of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international not-for-profit organisation, founded in 1993, made up of more than 10 000 people around the world from over 80 countries, who work to promote evidence based approaches to medicine. The Neurological Network is one of 80 Cochrane ‘‘entities’’. It aims to help Cochrane Collaboration Review Groups (CRGs) increase the quantity and quality of their output (of systematic reviews) relevant to neurology, neurosurgery and neurorehabilitation. It seeks to achieve this through several strategies: identifying high priority topics for new reviews; training in review methods; supporting the production of reviews; and liaising between the 27 disease specific CRGs that fall within the scope of ‘‘neuro’’ disciplines. A priority of the Cochrane Neurological Network is the promotion and dissemination of results of reviews on neurological topics from the Cochrane Library to a worldwide neurological audience. The challenge for the Cochrane Neurological Network is that its audience encompasses many different professions within the ‘‘neuro’’ disciplines and each may have somewhat different information needs. Therefore, the Cochrane Neurological Network seeks to promote cooperation within and outside the Cochrane Collaboration by creating a bridge between these different groups of people: ‘‘producers’’ as members of Cochrane Collaboration, representatives of CRGs, authors of non-Cochrane Systematic Reviews, external referee editors and ‘‘users’’ such as neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurorehabilitationists, neuroradiologists, neurological professions allied to medicine working in the neurological field, consumers, health care organisations, policy makers, students and professionals in training. In our opinion there is, on the one hand, a need to increase the number of systematic reviews, improve their quality, recognise and avoid any possible biases, and increase their external validity to fill the gap between existing evidence and clinical needs. On the other hand, there is a need to improve the ability to understand technical language, and increase reader awareness, since many need to learn the skills of critical appraisal to interpret the scientific literature, and how to apply the results of systematic review in their everyday clinical practice. Cochrane systematic reviews seek to provide a clear and concise summary of the existing evidence on a topic related to treatment, and the implications of that for daily practice. However, Cochrane systematic reviews also seek to identify implications for future research, and often provide a sound grounding for the design of future trials. Within this framework, the Cochrane Neurological Network Corner will appear every 3 months in this journal, aiming to introduce and increase reader knowledge of the synthesis of results from clinical trials, providing credible and objective support to guide medical behaviour in a specific issue. Each Corner will consist of a summary of a neurological review from The Cochrane Library, to be selected by a representative of the Neurological Network, Maria Grazia Celani, who will co-edit the Corner together with Peter Sandercock, the coordinating editor of the Cochrane Stroke Group and collaborator of the Neurological Network; Graeme Hankey, an advisory board member of the Neurological Network, will provide editorial consultation. In our opinion, this Cochrane Neurological Network Corner represents a special occasion to facilitate knowledge and access to Cochrane reviews, thanks to the illuminated editorial policy which also aims to bring together all available evidence on the effect of intervention in a wide variety of daily clinical healthcare.