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  • Applications open for Cochrane REWARD prizes


    Cochrane    , an organisation providing evidence to support decision making in medicine, announced the call for nominations for their annual REWARD prizes, acknowledging “initiatives that have potential to reduce research waste”. Research waste occurs when results of a study cannot be used in practice, especially in medical practice, and thus the money, time and effort put into the study is wasted. The mistakes leading to waste can be made at each stage of the research process, for example the researchers can choose a wrong question to begin with, or write up the results in a way that makes them incomprehensible. Last year, the REWARD prizes were given to:

    • The UK Equator Centre, for its Good Reports tool, referring writers to the appropriate reporting guidelines and running the checklists for them;
    • The EBM DataLab, for its Trials Tracker initiative, tracking if all registered clinical trials publish results, as they are obliged to;
    • The James Lind Alliance, for its Priority Setting Partnerships, bringing together patients and researchers at the moment of the trial design, so that the patients’ needs are directly addressed in the questions being asked. 
    The 2019 call is open until 5 June, and the winners will be announced later in October.

  • Cochrane-REWARD prize 2019 opens for nominations

    The call for nominations for this year’s Cochrane-REWARD prize is now live.

    The prize recognises initiatives that have potential to reduce research waste in five areas of health research: question selection, study design, research conduct, publication, and reporting.

    Last year’s winners were the UK Equator Centre for its Good Reports Tool, the EBM DataLab for its Trials Tracker initiative, and the James Lind Alliance for its Priority Setting Partnerships. We wrote in detail about these initiatives last year. Read that post here.

    Nominations will be assessed using the following criteria:

    1.    The nominee has addressed at least one of the 5 stages of waste (questions, design, conduct, publication, reporting) in health research;
    2.    The nominee has pilot or more definitive data showing the initiative can lower waste;
    3.    The initiative can be scaled up;
    4.    The estimated potential reduction in research waste that the initiative might achieve.

    If you are involved in a project that is aimed at reducing waste, or know of one you feel is commendable, download more information and the submission form here

    The closing date for applications is 5 June.