Cochrane Consumer Learning

The Cochrane Consumer Network (CCNet)

www.cochrane.org/consumers

The aim of the Cochrane Consumer Network is to provide a consumer (patient, care giver or user) view on protocols and reviews during their development - during the peer review process and also earlier, if requested by authors. We have an email discussion list (consumers@lists.cochrane.org) with many of our membership on it (not all on the list are consumers).

A review group, or occasionally an author, sends out a request for a consumer. This process is helped by giving some information about the purpose of the review in plain English.

The contact email address is: ccnet-contact@cochrane.de.

• We are a diverse group of individuals with a multitude of life skills.

• We are from many countries, many cultures, mixed backgrounds, business skills, social skills, societal skills, training in many different areas – there are over 550 consumers already involved with Cochrane and growing

• We bring the user perspective - with unexpected ideas, new approaches to every problem and issue