Mission
The overall mission of the US Cochrane Center is to further the Collaboration's goal of making widely available systematic reviews of evidence from randomized controlled trials of the effects of health care. A special mission of the US Cochrane Center is to support Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE), a partnership with health and consumer advocacy organizations interested in integrating, understanding, and interpretation of evidence-based healthcare into their advocacy activities, strengthening the voice of consumers in healthcare research, and providing leadership in these areas.

Brochures

• USCC Color Brochure (PDF)
   
• USCC Black-White Brochure (PDF)

What we do

The US Cochrane Center takes responsibility for the following general functions on behalf of the Collaboration:

1. Supporting Cochrane entities with a coordinating base in one of the US states or countries for which the Center is responsible:
   • Eyes and Vision Review Group, US Satellite
   • HIV/AIDS Review Group
   • Prostatic Disease and Urologic Cancers Review Group
   • Neonatal Review Group
   • Pain, Palliative, and Supportive Care Collaborative Review Group, Pain Section
   • Complementary Medicine Field
   • Behavioral Medicine Field
   • Screening and Diagnostic Tests Methods Group
2. Supporting new entities considering registering with the Collaboration
3. Supporting individuals who seek information about the Collaboration

Unique Functions

The US Cochrane Center also specifically contributes unique functions, mainly to its objective of identifying, and ensuring access to, reports of all randomized and controlled clinical trials

1. Organizing handsearches of the US general medical journals.
   
   
2. Coordinating the Master List of over 2,600 journals being handsearched by the Collaboration.
   
   
3. Supporting the further development and growth of CUE and CUE's mission



4. The two offices of the US Cochrane Center share many tasks, including:
   
   • Supporting Cochrane entities with a coordinating base serviced by the Center.
   • Supporting new CRGs, Fields, and Methods Working Groups who want to register with the Collaboration