2010 'Identifying the evidence for systematic reviews' course now booking
To be held on 22 September 2010, places are limited to 25 participants so book now to avoid disappointment.

This training day aims to provide an overview of the issues involved in supporting systematic reviews, such as extensive literature searching, bibliographic management and document acquisition, so delegates can deal confidently with requests for help. The course is a joint venture between CRD and the UK Cochrane Centre and is delivered by Information Specialists at CRD and the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre through a mixture of presentations, discussions and practical exercises.

Building an international register of ongoing systematic reviews: have your say
In response to growing concern about reporting biases, and advocacy for registration of systematic reviews , the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination ( CRD) is leading an initiative to establish an international register of ongoing systematic reviews.

The register will be free of charge and will work in a similar way to clinical trials registers allowing researchers to prospectively record key features of their systematic reviews. Fuller details about the project have just been published in The Lancet.

In order to arrive at an internationally agreed minimum data set for registration, a consultation exercise is now being undertaken. The opinions of international experts in systematic review, methodology, commissioning, and guideline development in health and social care and journal editors around the world are being sought.

To participate in this exercise please go to www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/projects/register.htm

Are adverse effects incorporated in economic models?
Failure to incorporate adverse effects adequately in models could limit the validity of the results obtained. The findings of this survey, published in the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, support a call for much clearer and explicit reporting of adverse effects.

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Smoking in pregnancy
This project is designed to contribute both to England’s tobacco control strategy and to the government’s wider strategy to reduce health inequalities. The project will provide information on the everyday contexts of smoking in pregnancy and the everyday difficulties that women face in giving up.

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Translating research into practice in Leeds and Bradford (TRiPLaB)
The TRiPLaB study protocol is now published in Implementation Science. TRiPLaB aims to develop, implement, and evaluate methods for inducing and sustaining the uptake of research knowledge into practice in order to improve the quality of health services for the people of Leeds and Bradford.

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