10 Facts About Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane, previously known as the Cochrane Collaboration, was founded in 1993 under the leadership of Iain Chalmers.

Gøtzsche announced that this had happened via an open letter, in which he said there is a "growing top-down authoritarian culture and an increasingly commercial business model" taking root at Cochrane Collaboration that "threaten the scientific, moral and social objectives of the organization".

The Cochrane Collaboration board stated that Gøtzsche was expelled for his behavior, which had been reviewed by an independent counsel hired by Cochrane Collaboration.

Key criticisms that have been directed at Cochrane Collaboration's studies include a failure to include a sufficiently large number of unpublished studies, failure to pre-specify or failure to abide by pre-specified rules for endpoint or trial inclusion, insufficiently frequent updating of reviews, an excessively high percentage of inconclusive reviews, and a high incidence of ghostwriting and honorary authorship.

Cochrane Collaboration maintains an official relationship with the World Health Organization that affords Cochrane Collaboration the right to appoint nonvoting representatives to WHO meetings, including sessions of the World Health Assembly, and make statements on WHO resolutions.

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Wikipedia and Cochrane Collaboration collaborate to increase the incorporation of Cochrane Collaboration research into Wikipedia articles and provide Wikipedia editors with resources for interpreting medical data.

In 2014, the Cochrane Collaboration blog hosted a rebuttal, written by four Wikipedia medical editors, of an article published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association that was critical of the accuracy of Wikipedia medical content.

Cochrane Collaboration receives funding from governments, supranational organizations, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, hospitals, and foundations, while avoiding funding from corporate interests.

Cochrane Collaboration involves the public via community curation, to produce systematic reviews and other outputs.

Representation of women as editors in Cochrane Collaboration was found to be better than that of other organizations.