Cochrane Review Initiative Project “CRIP”

Mission Statement:

CRIP is the Abbreviation for the Cochrane Review Initiative Project, which was developed by National and Gulf Center for EBM at National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

CRIP Objectives:

To synthesize 10 Cochrane reviews in the year 2005 by reviewers from NGHA and other institutions in Saudi Arabia.

Cochrane review is a systematic review that follows Cochrane Collaboration principles. There are currently more than 9000 people contributing to the work of the Cochrane collaboration from over 80 countries, and this involvement continue to grow.

Methods:

CRIP has 4 Phases:

Expected 20 Physicians to be recruited in CRIP. Time Frame: two and half months started at 1^stJanuary 2005

Reviewers to publish their Protocols within 2 months starts at March 15.

Reviewers are expected to complete data extraction, quality assessment and metaanalysis within five and half month, starts at May 15^th 2005

Reviewers are expected to complete and publish their reviews by the end of this phase, which ends at December 31^st 2005