The Cochrane Collaboration 20 years in

Jeremy Grimshaw, Jonathan Craig, David Tovey, and Mark Wilson publish an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) celenbrating 20 years of The Cochrane Collaboration.

In 1993, evidence-informed health care was in its infancy. The term “evidence-based medicine” had recently been coined at McMaster University, the Institute of Medicine had published an influential report on developing clinical guidelines, and about 500 systematic reviews were indexed in MEDLINE annually. Against this backdrop, 77 people from 11 countries attended the first Cochrane Colloquium in Oxford and agreed to establish The Cochrane Collaboration . . . read the full article.