title: The mission of the cochrane anesthesia review group: preparing and disseminating systematic reviews of the effect of health care in anesthesiology.
abstract: This article illustrates the basic principles of evidence-based medicine and the work within the Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Anesthesia Review Group. It describes how important randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews are in providing the best evidence to answer clinically relevant questions.
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000592:standards*; D003256:Community Participation; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D000078202:Systematic Reviews as Topic