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IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 13, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(5):966-968; doi:10.1093/ije/dym181
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young

South African Cochrane Centre, Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa. E-mail: taryn.young@mrc.ac.za

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This month, we feature the Cochrane Review assessing the effect of strategies to increase the response to postal questionnaires. Cochrane methodology reviews are published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Review alongside the more usual Cochrane Reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions. They are produced by the Cochrane Methodology Review Group. Cochrane methodology reviews have a similar structure to the healthcare reviews, but with a few subtle changes to their section headings, to reflect the fact that they cover studies assessing the methodology of research in health and social care, rather than the care itself. They are preceded by published protocols and produced with the same rigour and attention to detail as Cochrane Reviews of healthcare. For example, evidence from methodological research is included or excluded on the basis of explicit criteria. Each review covers a specific and well-defined area of methodology and data from included studies might be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

P Edwards, I Roberts, M Clarke, C DiGuiseppi, S Pratap, R Wentz, I Kwan and R Cooper

Joel J Gagnier1,2

1Post-graduate fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
2Senior science officer, Jamieson laboratories, Windsor, Ontario.

Elaine McColl

Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University.


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