Organization and functioning of Cochrane rehabilitation field

• Published in: Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine 2018-07, Vol.61, p.e527-e528
• Main Authors: Negrini, S., Arienti, C., William, L., Grubišic, F., Ilieva, E., Gimigliano, F., Meyer, T., Engkasan, J.P., Rathore, F., Malmivaara, A., Oral, A., Pollet, J., Howe, T., Kiekens, C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Network; Organization; Rehabilitation
• ISSN: 1877-0657; 1877-0665
• DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2018.05.1228

Cochrane Rehabilitation Field (CR) is a worldwide network aiming to act as a bridge between Cochrane and Rehabilitation community and stakeholders. CR specific goals are to undertake Knowledge Translation and to progress the methods for evidence synthesis in order to make them appropriate with the needs of people with disabilities and daily clinical rehabilitation practice. The aim of this paper is to describe the Organization and Functioning of the Field. Currently, 294 people from 52 different countries are part of CR. The organization includes: Director (responsible for the Knowledge Translation strategy); Coordinator (responsible of the Networking Strategy); Executive Committee; Advisory Board. The Communication Committee created the website (http://www.rehabilitation.cohrane.org) and is in charge of constantly updating it. It set up a YouTube channel, a Facebook page and a Twitter account. It is also responsible for the preparation of the Newsletter and of the production and dissemination of blogshots, a concise synthesis of the main message of Cochrane Evidence in Rehabilitation. The Publication Committee has been working on the creation of Cochrane Corners in rehabilitation National and International scientific journals. The Education Committee is responsible for the preparation of Cochrane sessions and workshops at Rehabilitation Meetings, 4 Workshops and 10 sessions at National and International Meetings have been realized so far. The Reviews Committee has been selecting all Cochrane Reviews relevant for rehabilitation, it has been developed and tested a systematic search strategy which is providing material for the other Committees. The Methodology Committee has been working for the improvement of the methods to synthesize evidence. Cochrane Rehabilitation is growing fast and more and more people are joining the different committees with the aim to obtain the same results of disseminating evidences.