cochrane eyes and vision group
Getting Involved
The Eyes and Vision Group has over 200 members from 30 different countries around the world. We welcome members from many different backgrounds and with a range interests. Our members range from people affected by eye diseases, to ophthalmology experts, to policy makers.
There are several different ways in which you can get involved with the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group:
- Prepare a systematic review
- Peer review our systematic reviews
- Give non-expert or consumer input to a review
- Manually search a journal
- Translate articles into English
- Register ongoing or unpublished trial details
- Join our e-mail list
Please fill out our Membership Form (RTF) for any of the above and we will contact you with additional information.
Prepare a systematic review
We would be happy to support you in preparing a systematic
review on a topic of your choice, or we can suggest a topic based on
our priority areas for reviews. For more information and a registration
form see our
Notes
for authors [PDF].
Register as a peer reviewer
All Eyes and Vision Group protocols and reviews are sent to experts in the field for pre-publication peer review. They are also sent to a 'consumer' for comments, to help ensure that they are relevant and clear to those affected by the condition covered in the review, or their carers or family members.
Register trial details
If you are conducting a controlled trial please register basic details of it with us. This ensures that our systematic reviews incorporate findings from the latest research. If you know of any trials that are have not yet been published or published only as an abstract, please tell us so that we can contact the principal investigator for further details.
Register to manually search a journal
An important element of Cochrane reviews is that they set out to include all relevant studies, whether published or not, in any language. For complete identification of published reports, there appears to be no alternative to a page-by-page search of the literature. We co-ordinate handsearching of ophthalmic journals and conference proceedings by volunteers. Training is available and you can search a journal or conference proceeding of your choice.
Register as a translator of articles
There are no language restrictions on the study reports that are included in Cochrane systematic reviews. We often require parts of reports in languages other than English to be translated in order for authors to determine whether it is relevant to their review.
Join our mailing list
We will send you a newsletter twice a year and e-mails to update you on the activity of the group.
