The e-textbook of the Cochrane Neurological Reviews MG Celani, TA Cantisani, M Congedo, C Cusi, K. Mahan, G. Settembri, M. Dragoni www.cnfbook.org Cochrane Neurological Field – Health Authority of Umbria – Perugia, Italy Reviews identification Introduction Every three months from the Cohrane Library … The Cochrane Neurological Field (CNF) promotes an easy approach to Cochrane neurological reviews by providing a browse list organized as a neurological textbook index. This e-textbook was planned as comprehensive as possible, with the aim to disseminate reviews, to provide a straightforward way to reach new audiences with various cultural needs and diverse educational backgrounds among neurology health professionals. This approach could be appreciated by students and consumers as well, in order to share updated evidence with people not used to systematic research in the Cochrane database Methods Results The e-textbook of Cochrane neurological reviews is organized by titles and chapters, with the possibility to "turn the pages", each review title is followed by the abstract and the plain language summary. Reviews of shared interest between categories are flagged. This enhances the multidisciplinary and multiprofessional aspects of a single review and is crucial for different specialities to increase the channel of relationships. The ten most read and appreciated are highlighted. Comments and evaluations by readers are encouraged. Every three months since the year 2000 the CNF has highlighted all reviews of neurological interest in the Cochrane Library new issue. In light of an evidence based approach, we decided to carry out a project with the aim to understand differences between clinical neurological practice. Six neurologists, located in different countries, willing to give their contribution to the Cochrane Neurological Field, were contacted. They were representative of different geographical areas: Africa, China, Brazil, Germany and Italy. By integrating the participants understanding of neurology we created a disease list which reflects the interest regarding neurology in the world; thanks to this work our “textbook index” is comprehensive of a wide range of interests and different practice in various contexts. Since 2009 these reviews are blindly selected from the Library, by two Italian neurologists belonging to different contexts: each title is ascribed to a topic within the index, a list of 27 categories and 35 sub-categories. Classification is discussed by two other independent neurologists who also find reviews that are of ‘shared interest’ with neurology and other disciplines (i.e. neurology and urology, etc). Conclusion We would like to present the e-textbook of Cochrane Neurological Systematic Reviews and offer the possibility to “surf it” and create a space to begin exchange and discussion with health professionals, students, patients, caregivers, citizens and policy makers in different realities. We Thank Promovideo, a Crossmedia Agency
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