Flatz, A.

Meerpohl, JJ

Nussbaumer, B.

Ried, J.

Toews, I.

Voigt-Radloff, S.

von Elm, E.

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Cochrane Kompakt – Evidence of Cochrane Reviewsin GermanIngrid ToewsI Toews1, JJ Meerpohl1, A Flatz2, S Voigt-Radloff1, B Nussbaumer3,J Ried4, E von Elm51Cochrane Germany, University Clinic Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany2Cochrane Switzerland, Institut universitaire de me´decine sociale etpre´ventive, Lausanne, Switzerland3Cochrane Austria, Donau Universita¨t Krems, Krems Austria4Cochrane Central Executive, London, UK5Cochrane Switzerland, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Lausanne,SwitzerlandContact: ingridfast@web.deBackgroundMany stakeholders in healthcare and patients need healthinformation in short formats and their first language. Mostevidence-based resources, e.g. systematic reviews, are in English.Therefore relevant contents which could improve decision-making in health might not be used at all or not in time. Toimprove access to Cochrane Reviews (CRs), Cochrane (formerlythe Cochrane Collaboration) one focus of Cochrane’s organisa-tional strategy ‘‘Strategy to 2020’’ is to translate content intomultiple languages. Cochrane Switzerland, Cochrane Austriaand Cochrane Germany coordinate joint efforts to translatePLSs of CRs into German and publish them under the labelCochrane Kompakt (www.cochrane.org/de).AimMaking evidence-based, transparent and user-friendly healthinformation widely available and accessible for informeddecision-making and better health.MethodsBesides translation resources from the Cochrane entities, thereare translation-teams from various professional fields, e.g.public health or physiotherapy. Cochrane provides centralsupport and an online translation platform (Smartling )including a glossary and a translation memory for manage-ment and publication of the translations. Translations anddouble editing by health specialists and native speakersguarantee high quality and standardisation.Translations are published in the Cochrane Library, inCochrane Kompakt (http://www.cochrane.org/de/evidence)and partly co-published in German-language discipline-specific journals. This increases the dissemination andimpact of translated Cochrane summaries.ResultsCurrently 239 translated PLSs with content from varioushealth specialties are available on Cochrane Kompakt (April2015), several with a focus on public health. Co-operation withseven professional fields have been successfully established withmore co-operations to follow. The aim is to further increasethe content of Cochrane Kompakt and establish it as arecognized information resource.Key messages Access for stakeholders to relevant evidence-based informa-tion in multiple languages -necessary for prompt andinformed decision-making in public health- is improvedby the Cochrane ‘‘Strategy to 2020’’ Cochrane Kompakt, a co-operation between three German-speaking Cochrane entities, provides evidence-based healthinformation through short summaries of Cochrane reviewsin plain language German182 European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 25, Supplement 3, 2015

Cochrane Kompakt - Evidence of Cochrane Reviews in German: Ingrid Toews

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