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IHCAI Foundation is the headquarters for the Central America Branch of the Cochrane Iberoamerican Center (CC_RCI). After a very successful year, The CC_RCI has different academic activities through the Central America area.
You are invited to visit The CC_RCI website at:
What it is the Cochrane Network?
The Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non profit organization, that helps everyone who is locking for well inform health care decisions. It is one the key instruments for “Evidence Based Medicine” approaches. The name came as a tribute to Archie Cochrane, a British epidemiologist and Medical Doctor and his pioneer vision, whom during his life (deceased in 1988) insisted in the importance of the Sanitary and Medical Practice based in the best scientific information; “certainly, we can strongly criticize the Medical Profession for not had periodically organize a critic summary about the effects of all the relevant clinical research, by specialty or sub-specialty, and periodically actualized”
Since 1993 the Cochrane Collaboration had being working in preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions; with a global and comprehensive perspective.
Proceedings of the International Conference organized by IHCAI Foundation in Costa Rica:
Next Colloquium:
Free access to Cochrane Library for Central America:
You will find information about past and future Colloquium:
"Evidence, health care and culture" at Barcelona in October 2003.
IHCAI Foundation has its headquartes in San José, Costa Rica, Central America.
IHCAI Foundation is an equal opportunity organization and do not make
any preference by gender, race, sexual orientation or political opinions
and rejects those openly racist, Nazi or Neo Nazi oriented.
IHCAI - Main Office
P.O. Box 1677-2100, San José, Costa Rica,
Tel: (506) 2227-6564 // Fax: (506)2226-3047
Email: info@ihcai.org
http://www. ihcai.org
