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Welcome and aims
Welcome to the first newsletter of CURE, the
Cochrane Urinary and Faecal Incontinence Collaborative Review Group! Our aim is to prepare, maintain and disseminate systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions for incontinence, including prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, concentrating on randomised controlled trials. We hope to cover any intervention where the main problem or outcome is incontinence. Where an intervention is aimed at another problem (eg benign prostate disease or stroke) but incontinence is a secondary outcome, we would work with the reviewers and editors of the appropriate collaborative review group to help them cover incontinence. supporting a team of 38 reviewers. The editors are Adrian Grant, Steinar Hunskaar, Don Wilson, Jean Hay-Smith, Brenda Roe and Peter Herbison. The trials search coordinator is Sheila Wallace, who has responsibility for database searching and reference management, and the assistant editor is Charis Glazener, who provides clinical input into assessing trials and edits this Newsletter. Last but most important, our temporary review group coordinator is Sharon McLeer, who keeps us all in touch and takes day to day responsibility for the group. In future newsletters, we will give some details about the backgrounds and responsibilities of the editorial team.
People
Currently, the editorial group consists of six
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editors, a review group, a trials search co-ordinator and an assistant editor
Editorial Team for Newsletter
Charis Glazener, Sharon McLeer, Adrian Grant
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We have just heard that we have been successful in obtaining some infrastructure funding from the NHS R&D Programme. This will make a big difference to our effectiveness.
CURE Newsletter Brief history
The CURE group was first conceived in the spring of 1994. An informal preparatory meeting was held in September of that year at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine involving about 20 UK-based people. A further 60 people later expressed an interest in helping to set up the group. This led to a formal exploratory meeting in Oxford in June 1995. This demonstrated the viability of the group and a formal request for registration within the Cochrane Collaboration was accepted in July 1996. Our administration base is at the Health Services Research
2 Cochrane Library
It is almost certain that the Cochrane Library is the most powerful single source of evidence about the effects of health care in the world. A new search system allows the user to do a onestep search of four databases currently contained in the Library, namely:
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The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), now containing 326 reviews and 342 protocols. This is where our CURE reviews will ultimately be
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Unit, University of Aberdeen. We share a suite of offices with CCEPP, the Cochrane Collaboration Effective Professional Practice Review Group, at Foresterhill Lea on the Foresterhill site in Aberdeen. We are now a multidisciplinary group of about 262 collaborators, and 46 have committed themselves to be editors, reviewers or hand searchers. The editorial base has been established in Aberdeen within the Health Services Research Unit. We have identified about 750 possibly eligible trials so far, and hard copies of these are being obtained, assessed and classified. Reviewers have so far submitted 16 titles, which have been agreed by the editors. We have one protocol and are eagerly awaiting the remaining 15!
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The York Database of Abstracts of Effectiveness (DARE), with references to over 1500 systematic reviews. The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR), a bibliography of over 150 000 controlled trials so far identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others. This is where the individual trials of interventions in incontinence that we identify will eventually be recorded. The Cochrane Review Methodology Database, a bibliography of over 600 articles and books on how to do Cochrane
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Although we are a relatively young Review Group, there have already been a number of changes amongst us. Our first Review Group Coordinator (RGC), Alison Ewen has left to take up a permanent position elsewhere in the University - good luck, Alison. Sheila Wallace, our Trials Search Coordinator, has just had her second baby, another boy, on Christmas Day. We are looking forward to her return in July. And Sharon McLeer has taken over from Alison as our temporary RGC, jointly with Charis Glazener.
Reviews and related issues. Thus, a search of The Library using the test stem 'incontinence' yields 7 in CDSR, 343 in CCTR, and 4 in DARE. Similarly, 'continence' yields 4 in CDSR, 116 in CCTR and 2 in DARE. It is up to us to get our reviews on incontinence into CDSR! Information about collaborative review groups (including us) and other Cochrane entities is also indexed within the Library. You can find details of CURE, for example, by searching for incontinence. The hits will appear under 'About the Cochrane Collaboration'. Double click on Collaborative Review Groups and the Incontinence Group will appear there. You can subscribe to the Cochrane Library as a single user, or via your institution or library. Details are in the enclosed leaflet.
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CURE Newsletter Registered Titles & Reviewers
Contact Editor BR Title of review Effectiveness of bladder training for the treatment of urinary incontinence Maximal electrical vaginal stimulation for female stress, urge and mixed incontinence Long term vaginal electrostimulation for stress, urge and mixed incontinence among women Outcome of surgical measures to improve faecal incontinence Pelvic floor exercises for the treatment of female genuine stress incontinence Drug treatment for urinary incontinence Vaginal cones for urinary incontinence Pelvic floor exercises in the treatment of faecal incontinence Oestrogens in genuine stress incontinence Lead reviewer Brenda Roe
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CoCoreviewer 1 reviewer 2 Kate Williams Mary Palmer
CoCoStatus reviewer 3 reviewer 4 Protocol
JHS
Steinar Hunskaar
Simon Emery
Selvi Jeyaseelan
Title registered
JHS
Steinar Hunskaar
Simon Emery
Selvi Jeyseelan Francis SeowChoen
Title registered
PH
M Ian Finlay Keighley
Ho Yik Hong
Steven Wexner
Title registered
SH
Jean HayKari Bo Smith Chris Chapple Stanislav Plevnik Christine Norton Andrew Hextall Kate Moore Peter Herbison Gordon Hosker Chris Benness
Eric Hendricks David Richmond Jill Mantle Sue Markwell
Title registered Title registered Title registered Title registered Title registered
AG JHS
JHS
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Electrical stimulation in the treatment of faecal incontinence The surgery of genuine stress incontinence excluding artificial sphincter and injectable substances Laparoscopic incontinence surgery Pharmacological agents to reduce immediate voiding problems after surgery for genuine stress incontinence Post prostectomy urinary incontinence Mechanical devices for urinary incontinence Injectables for urinary incontinence
Gordon Hosker
Christine Norton
Sue Markwell
Title registered
Gerry Jarvis
Don Wilson
Stephen Mark
Title registered
Gil Burton
Don Wilson
Andrew Foote
Marcus Carey
Tony Smith
Title registered
Andrew Watson
Adrian Grant
Title registered
Kathryn Moore Gunner Lose Eboo Versi
Stephen Mark Kelvin Boos Peter Herbison Malcolm Fraser Don Wilson
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To help reviewers to prepare protocols and use Revman to produce their reviews, the Cochrane Collaboration is running the following workshops. If you would like to attend one, please contact Sharon McLeer, our RGC, for an application form.
Protocol & Revman Workshops for Reviewers
1998 OXFORD LONDON LIVERPOOL ABERDEEN
Workshop Protocol Revman Protocol Revman Protocol Revman Protocol Revman
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February March April May June September October November
Monday 9th
Tuesday 10th Monday 16th
4th Annual Meeting for UK Contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration 3-4 April, 1998 Ð St CatherineÕs College, Oxford Monday 11th Monday 22nd Monday 14th Tuesday 12th Tuesday 23rd Tuesday 15th 6th International Colloquium 22-27 October, 1998 Ð Baltimore Monday 16th Tuesday 17th Monday 8th Tuesday 9th
You may be interested in the following meetings, which are relevant to incontinence or the Cochrane Collaboration in general:
1st International Consultation on Incontinence 28 June - 2 July 1998, Monaco International Continence Society 14 - 17 September 1998, Jerusalem 2nd International Conference of the Association for Continence Advice 20 - 23 April 1998, Edinburgh International Conference Centre
When you submit a title in order to undertake a review on incontinence, the following table gives a timetable for completion: Time after submission of title Editorial turnaround time
The Reviewer
The Editorial Team
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1. Submit a title 2. Submit a protocol
Check for duplicate title. Record on a database. 6 months Draft protocol commented on by at least two editors. Return to reviewer for editing prior to submission to CDSR. Draft review commented on by at least two editors and edited prior to submission to CDSR. Final review subject to peer review prior to Submission to CDSR
4 weeks
8 weeks
3. Submit a review 4. Inclusion in Cochrane Library
18 months
12 weeks
24 months
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