{"id":18786,"date":"2018-06-16T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T00:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18786"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T02:16:29","slug":"are-cochrane-reviews-truly-independent-and-transparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18786","title":{"rendered":"Are Cochrane Reviews Truly &quot;Independent and Transparent&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UnderTheTableCash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18787\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/UnderTheTableCash-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCriticisms of Cochrane reviews have surfaced since not long after the organization\u2019s inception. In 2001, for example, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) questioned the reliability of some Cochrane reviews, describing the implications for Cochrane\u2019s reputation as \u201cserious.\u201d The BMJ authors suggested that \u201cthe Cochrane Collaboration needs to clarify [explain] how it discharges its responsibilities for the quality of reviews published under its imprimatur, and how it responds when they are shown to have come to unjustified conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A more recent examination of Cochrane reviews in 2016 concluded that while \u201cthe methodological quality of Cochrane reviews is good compared to\u2026non-Cochrane reviews, \u2026it would be inappropriate to assume all Cochrane reviews are good quality and are at low risk of bias.\u201d Cochrane\u2019s new and chummy partnership with Wikipedia to include \u201crelevant evidence within all Wikipedia health articles,\u201d announced in early 2017, also may raise some eyebrows given Wikipedia\u2019s reputation for bias. All of these factors suggest that it might be time to take Cochrane\u2019s supposedly neutral relationship with its funders with a grain of salt.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/are-cochrane-reviews-truly-independent-and-transparent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/are-cochrane-reviews-truly-independent-and-transparent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticisms of Cochrane reviews have surfaced since not long after the organization\u2019s inception. In 2001, for example, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) questioned the reliability of some Cochrane reviews, describing the implications for Cochrane\u2019s reputation as \u201cserious.\u201d The BMJ authors suggested that \u201cthe Cochrane Collaboration needs to clarify [explain] how it discharges its responsibilities for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Cochrane Reviews Truly &quot;Independent and Transparent&quot;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51331,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions\/51331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}