BMJ  2008;336:797 (12 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39542.608866.DB

News

UK doctors show most interest in falls among elderly people, but French more curious about type 2 diabetes

Roger Dobson

1 Abergavenny

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The care of elderly people and prevention of obesity in children seem to be prompting the most interest in health research at the moment.

Preventing falls in elderly people and obesity in children were the two most commonly accessed reviews worldwide from the Cochrane Library in 2007.

A new analysis of the 20 most viewed items from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews also shows big differences between countries. In India the most popular review was of β blockers for hypertension; in France it was for type 2 diabetes.

More than half the world’s consumers and health professionals have free access or access funded by an institution or government to Cochrane evidence, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews holds 5171 reviews. In 2007 there were 4 036 752 individual visits and 2 603 210 full text downloads.

An analysis of 2007 data shows that the most accessed reviews, after . . . [Full text of this article]

Global top 20



Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Rapid Responses:

Read all Rapid Responses

A different perspective
Jon R Brassey
bmj.com, 12 Apr 2008 [Full text]

Student BMJ

Risk of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: record linkage studies

What can you learn from this BMJ paper? Read Leanne Tite's Paper+

www.student.bmj.com

Listen to the latest BMJ Interview