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Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre
Bonfill X, Solà I, Roqué M, Urrútia G.
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Mr Ivan Solà
Centro Cochrane Iberoamericano
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Edifici Casa de Convalescencia
Sant Antoni M Claret 167
Pavelló 18 Planta 0
Barcelona 08025
Spain
cochrane@cochrane.es
tsc@cochrane.es
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fax: +34 93 553 78 09
www.cochrane.es
This record was last updated on: 15 Abril 2013
General information
Background
The Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre (IbCC), formally registered as Spanish Cochrane Centre, officially opened on December 1, 1997, and was located at the Institut Universitari Fundació Parc Taulí in Sabadell (Spain). In June of 2000, the new offices of the renamed Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre officially opened at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona (Spain). The name of the Centre has been previously approved by the Monitoring and Registration Sub-Group of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group, and this change was proposed to recognize the Centre's efforts to extend the activities of the Cochrane Collaboration throughout that cultural, linguistic and historical area, and have progressed towards the establishment of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network.
The Iberoamerican Cochrane Network (IbCN) is constituted by those Iberoamerican institutions that have formalised a written agreement with the IbCC. This agreement is renewable every three years. Most institutions are Universities, Hospitals and some Governmental bodies. Any interested institution can decide two types of participation and involvement:
- Coordinating Centres (IbCN CC) assume almost all usual Centre's responsibilities in a particular country. It has a leading Coordinator that prepares an annual report to the IbCC.
- Associated Centres (IbCN AC) assume dissemination responsibilities and logistic support to the local authors. Associated Centres must have a referent Coordinating Centre.
In a particular country there can be several Coordinating Centres. Each Coordinating Centre can have a number of Associated Centres. The final goal is to have one or more active Coordinating Centres at every single Iberoamerican country, with some Associated Centres each.
The Iberoamerican Cochrane Network has currently formalised an agreement with 21 Coordinating Centres and 38 Associated Centres. Coordinating Centres must participate in one of four Regional Branches, with two Regional Coordinators each pertaining to different countries. The following Iberoamerican Regional Branches are currently being formally registered by the Cochrane Collaboration:
- Andean Branch, representing Colombia (4 IbCN CC, 7 IbCN AC), Ecuador (1 IbCN CC, 1 IbCN AC), Peru (2 IbCN CC, 2 IbCN AC), and Venezuela (1 IbCN CC, 1 IbCN AC).
- Central American and Caribbean Branch, representing Costa Rica (1 IbCN CC, 1 IbCN AC), Cuba (1 IbCN AC), El Salvador (1 IbCN AC), Guatemala (1 IbCN CC), Dominican Republic (1 IbCN AC), and Panama (1 IbCN CC).
- Mexican Branch, representing Mexico (3 IbCN CC, 3 IbCN AC).
- Southern American Brach, representing Argentina (3 IbCN CC, 13 IbCN AC), Bolivia (1 IbCN CC, 1 IbCN AC), Chile (3 IbCN CC, 4 IbCN AC), Paraguay (2 IbCN AC), and Uruguay (1 IbCN CC).
Objectives of the IbCC
1. Direction and coordination of IbCC
- To give priority to the activities of methodological support to potential reviewers or to clinical and scientific groups, reducing participation in activities of dissemination of limited usefulness.
- To maintain agreements and contracts with various public and private entities, to ensure the greatest stability and continuity possible for the activities of the IbCC.
- To promote the activities of the Regional Coordinating Branches of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network in different Latin American regions, covering our area of responsibility.
- To hold an annual meeting, within the framework of some other scientific event, of the most active members of the IbCC.
- To increase the partnership with PAHO to extend the Cochrane Collaboration activities on the areas, which are currently under-covered.
2. Methodological aid for the potential Iberoamerican reviewers and collaborative review groups
- To promote specific strategies according the needs and interests of those entities or individuals that show greater interest in actively participating and being involved in the Cochrane Collaboration.
- To devote the greater efforts in tasks which are methodological and statistical.
- To facilitate methodological support directly from the region, stimulating the mentoring from experts-authors from each region to new review authors.
- To offer the necessary support, depending on our abilities, to the Lung Cancer Group, coordinated by the IbCC, and to the Movement Disorders Group, coordinated from Lisbon.
3. Training activities
- To constantly improve the training programs in order to respond to the new requirements and interests of the reviewers in the reference area of the IbCC.
- To establish a training program, of variable duration, for those interested in spending a period of time at our Centre. To incorporate, insofar as this is possible, the needs of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network Regions.
- To identify those persons with the capacity to assume responsibility for training, and to explore the possibility of training "trainers" in various Iberoamerican countries.
- To reach greater coverage of the electronic courses developed by the IbCC.
- To promote that each region in Latin America could have sufficient training available.
4. Dissemination activities
- To periodically publish the Noticias CCIb electronic bulletin.
- To give priority to the dissemination activities and presentations in congresses or meetings with greater impact.
- To continue with the adaptation of material for dissemination to the needs of varied and specialized journals, especially in Latin America.
- To maintain the Centre's web page, with expansion to Iberoamerican Coordinating Centres and countries, and ensuring its links to other web pages of interest.
- To promote regional plans to the expansion of the Cochrane Collaboration on countries with minimal activity.
5. Translation activities
- To translate and distribute the Cochrane Collaboration Handbook.
- To promote the use of the Biblioteca Cochrane Plus in Spain and Latin-America.
- To improve the access, jointly with BIREME, to the national provision of the Biblioteca Cochrane for the whole LatinAmerica.
6. Handsearching of clinical trials
- To continue handsearching journals published in the Iberoamerican region.
- To establish a productive and stable relationship with the Ministry of Health's Registry of Clinical Trials.
- To explore anew the viability of obtaining information from the Clinical Research Ethics Committees.
- To initiate the prospective handsearching of Iberoamerican journals.
7. Coordination of lung cancer group
- Maintain a strategic plan for the Group to establish the working objectives.
- Improve the peer-review process.
- Improve the training and the communication with, and within, the Editorial Team.
Tasks assumed on behalf of the collaboration
- To translate methodological/training material and systematic reviews produced by the Cochrane Collaboration into Spanish.
- To identify all clinical trials published in Spanish and Iberoamerican medical journals and find ways to trace unpublished studies.
- To recruit actively contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration, both in Europe and Latin America.
- To support the editorial base of the CRG on Lung Cancer, in Spain (Registered on September 07, 1998).
Entities for which the centre is the reference Cochrane Centre
Lung Cancer Cochrane Review Group, Barcelona (Spain)
Movement Disorders Cochrane Review Group, Lisboa (Portugal)
Patient Reported Outcomes Methods Group, Lyon (France)
Developing Countries Network, San José (Costa Rica)
Countries for which the centre is the reference Cochrane Centre
Algeria
Andorra
Argentina
Bolivia
Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic (República Dominicana)
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial)
Guatemala
Honduras
Mauritania
Morocco (Marruecos)
Mexico (México)
Nicaragua
Panama (Panamá)
Paraguay
Peru (Perú)
Portugal
Sao Tome and Principe (Santo Tomé y Príncipe)
Spain (España)
Tunisia
Uruguay
Venezuela
Formal agreements were established with some institutions in the following countries to coordinate the Cochrane activities in a particular country (acting as a Regional Branch):
Andalucia (Spain): Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias de Andalucía (AETSA). Consejería de Salud - Junta de Andalucía. Contact person: Isabel Martínez, e-mail: imaria.martinez.ext@juntadeandalucia.es; Web page: http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/salud/servicios/aetsa/
Argentina: Academia Nacional de Medicina (Buenos Aires). Contact person: Zulma Ortiz, e-mail: cochrane@epidemiologia.anm.edu.ar; Web page: http://www.epidemiologia.anm.edu.ar/cochrane. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (Buenos Aires). Contact person: Agustín Ciapponi, e-mail: cochrane@iecs.org.ar; Web page: http://www.iecs.org.ar/cochrane ; Centro Rosariño de Estudios Perinatales (Rosario). Contact person: Yanina Sguassero, e-mail: ysguassero@crep.com.ar; Web page: http://www.crep.com.ar
Central America: International Health Central American Institute, (San José, Costa Rica). Contact person: Mario Tristan, e-mail: cochrane_ca@ihcai.org / mtristan@ihcai.org; Web page: http://www.cochrane.ihcai.org
Colombia: Instituto de Investigación en Ciencia Clínicas Sanitas (Bogotá). Contact person: David Rincón, e-mail: d.cuadrado@e-sanitas.edu.co. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá). Contact person: Mª Ximena Rojas, e-mail: mxrojas@javeriana.edu.co; Web page http://puj-portal.javeriana.edu.co/portal/page/portal/Facultad%20de%20Medicina/ptl_dpto_epidemiol/Presentaci%F3n
Cuba: Ministerio de Salud Pública. Contact person: Niviola Cabrera, e-mail: ncc@infomed.sld.cu
Chile: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Santiago de Chile). Contact person: Gabriel Rada, e-mail: grada@med.puc.cl; Web page: http://www.umbeuc.cl/. Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO). Contact person: Eddy Ríos, e-mail: edrios@adsl.tie.cl; Web page: http://www.ciges.cl. Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (Concepción). Contact Person: Marcela Cortés, e-mail: p.cortes@ucsc.cl; Web page: http://medicina.ucsc.cl/.
Ecuador: Fundación Educación, Salud y Sociedad (FESS). Contact person: Ricardo Hidalgo, e-mail: rho@ute.edu.ec; Web page: http://www.cochrane.ec/
Madrid (Spain): Agencia Pedro Laín Entralgo. Consejería de Sanidad y Consumo de la Comunidad de Madrid. Contact person: Jesús López Alcalde, e-mail: jlopez.alcalde@cochrane.es; Web page: http://www.madrid.org/lainentralgo
Mexico: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Contact person: Carlos Cuello, e-mail: carlos.cuello@gmail.com; Web page: http://www.itesm.edu/
Peru: Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Contact person: Cesar Loza, e-mail: cesar.loza@upch.pe; Web page: http://upchmed.com/red_cochrane_peru/
Portugal: Centro de Estudos de Medicina Baseada na Evidência (CEMBE). Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa. Contact person: João Costa, e-mail: cembe@fm.ul.pt; Web page: http://www.fm.ul.pt/index.html#614
Uruguay: Fondo Nacional de Recursos, Asunción. Contact Person: Oscar Gianneo, e-mail: ogianneo@fnr.gub.uy; Web page: http://www.fnr.gub.uy/centro-colaborador-cochrane-para-uruguay
Personnel
Centre staff members
Xavier Bonfill i Cosp
Marta Roqué i Figuls
Ivan Solà Arnau
Gerard Urrútia i Cuchí
Maroussia Tzanova
Associated Researchers
Pablo Alonso-Coello, Physician
Mª José Martínez, Pharmacologist
Jordi Pardo, Communication specialist
David Rigau, Pharmacologist
Jesús López Alcalde, Inrenational Affairs
Members of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network- Staff
Andalucía: Isabel Martínez.
Argentina: Agustín Ciapponi, Zulma Ortiz, Yanina Sguassero.
Central America: Mario Tristán.
Colombia: Mª Ximena Rojas, David Rincón, Javier Hernando Eslava-Schmalbach.
Chile: Marcela Cortés, Eddy Ríos, Gabriel Rada.
Ecuador: Ricardo Hidalgo.
Madrid: Jesús López Alcalde.
Mexico: Carlos Cuello.
Peru: César Loza.
Portugal: João Costa.
Uruguay: Oscar Gianneo.
Consultants
Ignasi Bolíbar, Epidemiologist
Ignasi Gich, Statistician
Teresa Puig, Epidemiologist
Handsearchers
Spain
Xavier Bonfill
José Exposito
Cristóbal Buñuel Álvarez
Mònica Fernández
Argentina
Marcelo García Dieguez
Sandra Raiher
Zulma Ortiz
Colombia
David Rincón
Ludovic Reveiz
Javier Eslava
Cuba
Jorgelina Jiménez Miranda
Jehová Oramas
Chile
Miguel Araujo
Patricia Kraemer
Guatemala
Luís López
Peru
César Loza
El Salvador
Virginia Rodríguez
Uruguay
Carina Patrón Sentena de Alencastro
Boards of the IbCC
The IbCC has constituted an Advisory Board to replace the Promotion Group which served in a similar capacity for the Spanish Cochrane Network. The first meeting to this new Board was during the XI Cochrane Colloquium Barcelona 2003, with relevant people from the most active iberoamerican contributors.
Support
Current Sources of funding support
Core Support
- Fundació de Gestió Sanitària de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona)
- Asociación Colaboración Cochrane Iberoamericana
Project Funding
- Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Past Sources of Funding Support
- Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias de Andalucía (AETSA) - Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía
- Agència d'Avaluació de Tecnologia i Recerca Mèdiques (AATRM) - Servei Català de la Salut
- Merck Sharp & Dome de España (contributed to the Biblioteca Cochrane Plus translation during the period 2001-2005)
Other Support
- Fundación Iberoamericana Itaca
Institutions supporting the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network
- Consejería de Salud - Junta de Andalucía (ANDALUCÍA, SPAIN)
- Academia Nacional de Medicina, Buenos Aires (ARGENTINA)
- Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria - IECS, Buenos Aires (ARGENTINA)
- Maternidad Sardá, Buenos Aires (ARGENTINA)
- Hospital de Niños, Córdoba (ARGENTINA)
- Facultad de Medicina de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CHILE)
- Universidad de La Frontera (CHILE)
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Santa Fe de Bogotá (COLOMBIA)
- Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Clínicas Sanitas, Bogotá (COLOMBIA)
- Fundación Instituto Centroamericano de Salud Internacional - IHCAI, (COSTA RICA)
- Ministerio de Salud Pública (CUBA)
- Fundación Educación Salud y Sociedad, Quito (ECUADOR)
- Agencia Pedro Laín Entralgo (MADRID)
- Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP) (MEXICO)
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (PERU)
- Centro de Neurociências de Lisboa - Grupo de Neurofarmacologia Clínica. (PORTUGAL)
In accordance with the current policy of The Cochrane Collaboration, the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre does not receive funding from commercial sources, defined as any for-profit manufacturer or provider of health care, or any other for-profit source with a real or potential vested interest in the findings of a specific review. The declaration of interest statements of the Centre's Director (Xavier Bonfill - XB) and the core Centre Staff (Gerard Urrútia - Associate Director - GU; Ivan Solà - Administrator - IS; Marta Roqué – Statistician) are below. Each of these declarations will be revised quarterly. The term 'related organisation' in the questions below means any organisation related to health care or medical research.
A. Financial interest
In the past five years, have you:
1 Received research funding: any grant, contract or gift, commissioned research, or fellowship from a related organisation to conduct research?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
2 Had paid consultancies: any paid work, consulting fees (in cash or kind) for an organisation?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
3 Received honoraria: one-time payments (in cash or kind) from a related organisation?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
4 Served as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or held a position of management with a related organisation?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
5 Possessed share-holdings, stock, stock options, equity with a related organisation (excludes mutual funds or similar arrangements where the individual has no control over the selection of the shares)?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
6 Received personal gifts from a related organisation?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
7 Had an outstanding loan with a related organisation?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
8 Received royalty payments from a related organisation?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
B. Non-financial interest
Do you have any other competing interests that could pose conflict of interest that would reasonably appear to be related to the primary interest?
[XB, MR, IS, GU] No
Reports
Annual reports
Available from the Centre (Report for 2011).
Other publications
Periodical information on topics of interest to the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network are disseminated in the electronic bulletin Noticias-CCIB, in Spanish. To subscribe fill out the form on the Centre's web pages, at http://www.cochrane.es/?q=es/register
Print copies of the Inter-Cambio newsletter are available at the Centre upon request. There is also a link to the PDF version of the Inter-Cambio newsletter (in Spanish) in the website.
Publications are listed in the annual report.
Training
Forthcoming training workshops
We offer upon request protocol and RevMan workshops.
Next workshops will be announced on the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre Web pages. http://cochrane.es/?q=en/formacion
Training materials
The Cochrane Handbook forms the basis for training. The Spanish language translation of this document is available at the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre's website: http://cochrane.es/files/handbookcast/Manual_Cochrane_510.pdf
The Centre's web page also offer an interactive free course on systematic reviews in Spanish: http://www.cochrane.es/moodle/course/info.php?id=4
Other training materials are available at the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre's website: http://www.cochrane.es/?q=es/archivosCochrane
Events
Past events
XI Colloquium Cochrane 26-31 October, 2003, Barcelona. More information in: http://www.esigmat.net/cochrane/
I Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, June, 2002, Cartagena de Indias (COLOMBIA)
II Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, October, 2003, Barcelona (SPAIN)
III Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, May, 2004, Buenos Aires (ARGENTINA)
IV Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, April, 2005, Cuernavaca (MEXICO)
V Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, April, 2006, Quito (ECUADOR)
VI Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, June, 2007, Barcelona (SPAIN)
VII Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, June, 2008, Heredia (COSTA RICA)
VIII Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, June, 2009, Bogotá (COLOMBIA)
IX Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, April, 2010, Santiago de Chile (CHILE)
X Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, October, 2011, Madrid (SPAIN)
XI Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, May, 2012, Lima (PERU)
XIX Colloquium Cochrane 19-22 October, 2011, Madrid (SPAIN). More information in: http://2011.colloquium.cochrane.org/
Future events
XII Reunión de la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, May, 2012, Monterrey (MEXICO)
