This page contains the most up-to-date guidance that we would like our bloggers to follow when preparing their blogs for Evidently Cochrane. Last updated: June 2020.

Read the guide here.

We have updated this guidance in line with a new 18-item Checklist and accompanying guidance for disseminating findings from Cochrane intervention reviews published by Cochrane in the autumn of 2019.  This is a new resource that can improve the quality, consistency and translatability of dissemination products (such as blogs) that present findings of a Cochrane interventionA treatment, procedure or programme of health care that has the potential to change the course of events of a healthcare condition. Examples include  a drug, surgery, exercise or counselling.   review.

As most of our blogs discuss Cochrane evidenceCochrane Reviews are systematic reviews. In systematic reviews we search for and summarize studies that answer a specific research question (e.g. is paracetamol effective and safe for treating back pain?). The studies are identified, assessed, and summarized by using a systematic and predefined approach. They inform recommendations for healthcare and research., give a short summary of the evidence, placing this evidence in context, often with a patient or practitioner perspective, it is important that our bloggers closely follow the guidance here.

For those writing a different type of blog, for example highlighting a project, and not discussing the results of a systematic or Cochrane ReviewCochrane Reviews are systematic reviews. In systematic reviews we search for and summarize studies that answer a specific research question (e.g. is paracetamol effective and safe for treating back pain?). The studies are identified, assessed, and summarized by using a systematic and predefined approach. They inform recommendations for healthcare and research., much of the advice in this guidance document is still relevant.

Get in touch

If you are writing a blog for Evidently Cochrane, you should already be in touch with Sarah Chapman, Cochrane UK’s Knowledge Broker and the Editor of Evidently Cochrane. If you would like to express an interest in blogging for Evidently Cochrane, or have any questions, please contact Sarah sarah.chapman@cochrane.nhs.uk.

Further information

• Find out more about Cochrane’s Dissemination Checklist here
• Watch a webinar about Cochrane’s Dissemination Checklist here.

Editor’s note: we last updated this guidance in June 2020, in line with the latest Cochrane guidance for describing evidence certainty.