Resources for review authors

The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions includes guidance on incorporating adverse effects in systematic reviews.  A discussion paper on the methods used has also been published in BMC Medical Research Methodology.

Loke  YK, Price D, Herxheimer A. Systematic reviews of adverse effects: framework for a structured approach    BMC Med Res Methodol 2007;7:32.

For further information and advice please join our discussion list at http://lists.cochrane.org/mailman/listinfo/aemg or contact a member of our specialist advisory panel.

Specialist Advisory Panel

Jeffrey Aronson
Specialisation: clinical pharmacology, analysis of adverse drug reactions
jeffrey.aronson@clinpharm.ox.ac.uk

Deborah Ashby
Specialisation: statistical techniques, especially Bayesian techniques
d.ashby@qmul.ac.uk

Hilda Bastian
Specialisation: interpreting reviews of adverse effects for consumers
Hilda.bastian@iqwg.de

Stephen Evans
Specialisation: pharmacoepidemiology and statistical techniques
stephen.evans@lshtm.ac.uk

Ann E. Fonfa
Specialisation: consumer advocate
annfonfa@aol.com

Su Golder
Specialisation: information retrieval
spg3@york.ac.uk

Rokuro Hama
Specialisation: analysis of narrative reports of adverse drug reactions
Gec00724@nifty.com

Andrew Herxheimer
Specialisation: communicating with the public about harms.
a.herxheimer@ntlworld.com

Tom Jefferson
Specialisation: dealing with rare events
zorria@epinet.co.uk

Yoon Loke
Specialisation: adverse drug effects, study design
Y.Loke@uea.ac.uk

Saad Shakir
Specialisation: prescription event monitoring, adverse drug reactions in drug utilisation research
saad.shakir@dsru.org