Associazione Alessandro Liberati – Cochrane Affiliate Centre 

Associazione Alessandro Liberati – Cochrane Affiliate Centre is non-profit organization and pursues social solidarity purposes. Its main objectives are to carry out the following activities in the field of social and healthcare:

• Promote Cochrane's activities in Italy and Europe, with particular reference to the culture of evidence-based medicine.
• Promote initiatives aimed at deepening the ethical and social implications of choices in the field of health and social care policies.
• Interact with the health authorities and regional and national agencies responsible for promoting innovation and quality of care in the Italian National Health Service.
• Conduct research and training activities, also in collaboration with universities, and update methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness and quality of healthcare interventions.
• Promote training and development initiatives on critical evaluation of the quality of scientific literature.
• Launch initiatives aimed at stimulating the active involvement of citizens and their associations in promoting and acquiring a critical attitude towards the use of health and social services.
• Experiment with innovative initiatives for the dissemination and dissemination of research results on the effectiveness of health and social care interventions, aimed at healthcare professionals and the general population.

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Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele 

The main objectives of the center are:

• To promote, especially among the students of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of our University, the culture of clinical practice based on scientific evidence, emphasizing the importance of synthesizing evidence, such as Cochrane systematic reviews. This is essential in the current context of the rapid dissemination of scientific information, often shared through media that do not always provide a complete and accurate perspective, particularly in areas of medicine where uncertainties and/or potential improvements still exist. This aims to enable informed decision-making based on evidence of effectiveness.
• To train a new generation of young researchers and scholars with both a solid methodological foundation in clinical research and well-developed critical thinking skills. In biomedical literature, it is now rare not to encounter a systematic review, a sign of an important transition from an emerging status (early 1980s) to a recognized academic and scientific value.
• To update and produce various new Cochrane systematic reviews, a commitment undertaken to maintain scientific information in a state of serious and constant update, following both the advances and the re-evaluations of an ever-evolving science.

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