Our official documents

USCC Annual Reports

Annual reports provide detailed accounts of all USCC activities during a calendar year.

CUE Meeting and Conference Reports

CUE reports describe the events and progress that took place at annual CUE meetings and the first ever CUE- sponsored advocacy summit.

2012 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Annual Meeting Report (8 June, 2012, Washington, DC) Slidecasts
2011 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Annual Meeting Report (12 August, 2011, Washington, DC) Slidecasts
2010 - Advocacy in the Era of Evidence: An International Summit for Consumer Advocates Report, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Podcasts (17 October, 2010, Keystone, Colorado)
2010 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Annual Meeting (15 April 2010, Washington, DC) Podcast
2009 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Annual Meeting includes Appendices A and B; Appendices C-I (3 September 2009, Washington, DC)
2008 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Annual Meeting (23 July 2008, Washington, DC)
2007 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Annual Meeting (16 July 2007, Washington, DC)
2007 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Advocacy Summit (17 July 2007, Washington, DC).
2006 - Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) Annual Meeting (21 September 2006, Alexandria, VA)
2005 - United States Cochrane Center (USCC) Consumer Coalition Conference
(7-8 September 2005, Columbia, MD)
2005 - United States Cochrane Center (USCC) Consumer Coalition Annual Meeting (30 March-1 April 2005, Providence, RI)
2004 - United States Cochrane Center (USCC) Consumer Coalition Annual Meeting (3-4 August 2004, Washington, DC)
2003 - United States Cochrane Center (USCC) Consumer Coalition Annual Meeting (16-17 July 2003, Washington, DC)

US Contributors' Meeting and Conference Reports

US Contributors' reports describe events and progress that took place at annual meetings and at biennial meetings.

2011 - US Contributors' Meeting - 19th Cochrane Colloquium, (20 October, 2011, Madrid, Spain
2010 - Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations: Bringing Evidence-based Decision-Making to New Heights (18 - 22 October, 2010, Keystone, Colorado) Podcasts
2010 - US Contributors' Meeting - 2010 Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations: Bringing Evidence-based Decision-Making to New Heights (19 October, 2010, Keystone, Colorado)
2009 – US Contributors’ Meeting – 17th Cochrane Colloquium (12 October 2009, Singapore)
2009 – USCC Stakeholder Summit on Using Quality Systematic Reviews to Inform Evidence-based Guidelines (4-5 June 2009, Baltimore, MD) Podcasts
2008 – US Contributors’ Meeting – 16th Cochrane Colloquium: Evidence in the era of globalization (5 October 2008, Freiburg, DE)
2008 - USCC Conference on Priority Setting for Systematic Reviews (10 – 11 July 2008, Baltimore, MD) Podcasts
2007 – US Contributors’ Meeting – 15th Cochrane Colloquium: Evidence-based healthcare for all (26 October 2007, Sao Paulo, BR)
2006 - US Contributors’ Meeting. 14th Cochrane Colloquium: Come to the craic (24 October 2006, Dublin, IE)
2006 - North American Conference on Systematic Reviews: Encompassing Diversity in Systematic Reviews (13-14 July 2006, Baltimore, MD)
2005 - US Contributors’ Meeting. 13th Cochrane Colloquium: Corroboree (26 October 2005, Melbourne, AU)
2004 - US Contributors’ Meeting. 12th Cochrane Colloquium: Bridging the gaps (3 October 2004, Ottawa, CA)
2004 - US Cochrane Collaboration Meeting. Building the Foundation: Creating Greater Awareness and Use of Evidence-based Healthcare (1-2 April 2004, Providence, RI)
2003 - US Contributors’ Meeting. 11th Cochrane Colloquium. Evidence, healthcare and culture (28 October 2003, Barcelona, ES)
2002 - US Contributors’ Meeting. 10th Cochrane Colloquium. (1 August 2002, Stavanger, NO)

Workshop Abstracts and Agendas

Consumer and Consumer Advocate Workshop Abstracts

2008 - Consumers speak out! What do we want results reporting to look like? (Freiburg, Germany)
2007 - Developing a local coalition of consumer advocacy groups (São Paulo, Brazil)
2006 - Critical Appraisal Skills for Consumers: Understanding the Evidence using an online course on Evidence-based Healthcare for Consumer Advocates (Dublin, IE)
2005 - Critical Appraisal Skills for Consumers - Understanding the Evidence using an online course (Melbourne, AU)
2004 - Bringing the Evidence-based Message to Consumers: Classic Missteps in Health Care (Ottawa, CA)

Evidence-based Healthcare Workshop Agendas

2007 - Evidence-based Healthcare: A workshop on finding, synthesizing, and applying clinical evidence, jointly sponsored by MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society (Baltimore, MD
2007 - Evidence-based Healthcare, Occupational Therapy, and the Cochrane Collaboration (St Louis, MO)
2006 - Evidence-based Healthcare: Searching for the Evidence (Atlanta, GA)
2005 - Workshop on Developing Evidence-based Guidelines (Columbia, MD)
2004 - Workshop on Finding and Using the Best Evidence for Healthcare Practice (San Antonio, TX)

Handsearching Workshop Agendas

2007 - Handsearching (Sao Paulo, BR)
2006 - Handsearching Online Journals – Do We Need New Rules? (Dublin, IE)
2005 - Advanced level: Determining study design classification of potential trial reports using MEDLINE abstracts as examples (Melbourne, AU)
2004 - Intro level: Determining study design classification of potential trial reports using MEDLINE abstracts as examples (Ottawa, CA)
2004 - Advanced level: Determining study design classification of potential trial reports using MEDLINE abstracts as examples (Ottawa, CA)
2002 - Intro level: Determining study design classification of potential trial reports using MEDLINE abstracts as examples (Stavanger, NO)
2002 - Advanced level: Determining study design classification of potential trial reports using MEDLINE abstracts as examples (Stavanger, NO)

Peer Review Workshop Agendas

2005 - Translating critical appraisal of a manuscript into meaningful peer review (Providence, RI)
2004 - Translating critical appraisal of a manuscript into meaningful peer review (Sarasota, FL)
2003 - Translating critical appraisal of a manuscript to meaningful peer review (Providence, RI)

Procite Workshop Abstracts

2005 - Using ProCite for creating and submitting databases of trials for CENTRAL (Melbourne, AU)
2002 - Creating Trials Databases for Submission to CENTRAL Using ProCite Reference Management Software (Stavanger, NO)

Systematic Review Workshop Agendas

2007 - Completing a Cochrane Systematic Review (Baltimore, MD)
2007 - Completing a Cochrane Systematic Review (Sarasota, FL)
2006 - Completing a Cochrane Systematic Review (Baltimore, MD)
2006 - Completing a Cochrane Systematic Review (Atlanta, GA)
2006 - Completing a Cochrane Systematic Review (Sarasota, FL)
2005 - Completing a Cochrane Systematic Review (Providence, RI)
2005 - Workshop on How to Perform a Systematic Review (Sarasota, FL)
2004 - Workshop on Completing a Cochrane Systematic Review (Woods Hole, MA)
2004 - Workshop on How to Perform a Systematic Review (Sarasota, FL)
2003 - Developing a Protocol for a Cochrane Systematic Review (Providence, RI)

Train the Trainers Workshop Abstracts

2009 - Techniques for Training Systematic Reviewers (Singapore)
2008 - Techniques for Training Systematic Reviewers (Freiburg, Germany)
2007 - Techniques for Training Systematic Reviewers (São Paulo, Brazil)
2006 - Techniques for Training Systematic Reviewers (Dublin, IE)
2005 - Techniques for Training Systematic Reviewers (Melbourne, AU)
2004 - Techniques for Training Systematic Reviewers (Ottawa, CA)

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