NYU training initiative

The Cochrane Collaboration will partner with the New York University College of Dentistry to train NYU dental and nursing faculty to conduct systematic reviews of the scientific literature related to oral health.

Thr partnership makes NYU the first North American training site for yhe Cochrane Oral Health Group Global Alliance, which conducts symposia using Cochrane systematic review training techniques.

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The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping clinicians, researchers, purchasers, and patients make health-care decisions based on up-to-date, reliable, and accurate information.

The Cochrane Oral Health Group Global Alliance, based in Manchester, England, is one of 52 groups around the world belonging to yhe Cochrane Collaboration, and is organized by the University of Manchester and the University of Dundee in Scotland.

Cochrane Reviews are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care, which the American Dental Association defines as “an approach to health care that requires the judicious integration of systematic assessments of clinically relevant scientific evidence, relating to the patient’s oral and medical condition and history, in concert with the dentist’s clinical expertise and the patient’s treatment needs and preferences.”

The impetus for the partnership came from Dr. Analia Veitz-Keenan, clinical assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial pathology, radiology, and medicine at the NYU College of Dentistry, and a member of the evidence-based dentistry group of the International Association for Dental Research. Dr. Veitz-Keenan is director of NYU’s Cochrane Collaboration project.

According to Dr. Joan A. Phelan, professor and chair of NYU’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Radiology and Medicine, “NYU’s partnership with the Cochrane Collaboration provides a framework for developing literature reviews that are internationally recognized as the gold standard in translating evidence into clinical practice and incorporating evidence into dental education.”

For more information, visit www.nyu.edu.

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