January 2021

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Welcome to January's bumper edition of Cochrane Connect

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• COVID-19 Recommendations Map: Turning evidence into policy and practice

• Emory medical students visually explain Cochrane COVID-19 evidence

• Cochrane publishes two COVID-19 scoping reviews to inform WHO guidance

• Cochrane Clinical Answers related to COVID-19

• Watch Cochrane Library Editor in Chief's presentation "Leadership, systematic reviews, and COVID: an international perspective"

• Cochrane COVID-19 Podcasts

• COVID‐19: working together and making a difference for decision‐makers

• Supporting resilience and mental well-being in frontline healthcare professionals during and after a pandemic

• Behind the Numbers Podcasts speaks to Dr. Stevens from Cochrane Canada

This page highlights the many ways that Cochrane has successfully responded to COVID-19 around the world. Find out more on many of our case studies above,

Cochrane statement to the 148th WHO Executive Board meeting on strengthening global emergency preparedness

Our statement highlights the ongoing contributions of the Cochrane community to the international COVID-19 response, and pledges support for WHO’s efforts in preparing for future health emergencies.

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• Helping families secure a step‐up to emergency care for patients with a life-threatening condition

• Tourniquet in knee replacement surgery

• What types of interventions benefit people experiencing homelessness to quit smoking?

• Drugs for correcting the basic defect in the most common cystic fibrosis-causing gene variant

• Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation in women at risk of preterm birth

• Does behavioural support help people to stop smoking?

• Special healthy ageing issue of Cochrane Library app released, as WHO launches Decade for Healthy Ageing Baseline Report

• Behavioural activation therapy for depression

• Author interview: the role of cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents

• Anti-IL5 therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Let's talk e-cigarettes Podcast

• Eight ways to quit smoking in 2021: video talks through the Cochrane evidence

• Pharmacological interventions for self‐harm in adults

• What are the most effective interventions during pregnancy for preventing stillbirth?

• Podcast: Treatment for breast engorgement (overfull, hard, painful breasts) in breastfeeding women

• Cochrane expands its reach with the launch of a new Network across China

• Cochrane goes 'Geek Chic' with new merchandise - an interview with Science Scribbles

• Cochrane Sweden collaborates on trial transparency report

• Cochrane's Early Career Professionals Group - Upcoming activities

• Cochrane passes 100,000 members and supporters

• Virtual Methods Symposium: Advanced Methods and Innovative Technologies for Evidence Synthesis

• Launching Cochrane methods guidance in Spanish and Japanese

• #MyCochraneStory

• Conflicts of interest in clinical guidelines, advisory committee reports, opinion pieces, and narrative reviews: associations with recommendations

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