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Policy liaison home Review summaries Cochrane - Consumers & Communication Topics & Reviews Review summaries Australia's contribution Impact on health care Research priorities Other policy relevant Cochrane work Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Consumers and Communication Evidence-Based Policy Network About the EBPN Events Bulletin - latest news Helpdesk for EBPN Resources Cochrane Library logon NICS Cochrane Library guide Australasian Cochrane Centre National Health Priority Areas website		Cochrane people - Consumers and communication group Editorial Base Australia's contribution List of Australian reviewers Contacts Editorial Base The Consumers and Communication Review Group is responsible for the preparation and maintenance of reviews in The Cochrane Library on how best to communicate with people about their health and health care. The international Editorial Base is located at the School of Public Health, Latrobe University, Victoria, Australia. The group is funded by the Victorian Government Department of Human Services and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The group's reviews fall into four broad categories: Interventions affecting the benefit individual consumers gain from consultations or episodes of care: a) Interventions relating to communication during consultations or episodes of care b) Interventions relating to health care decision making Interventions affecting consumer participation in health-care planning, policy and research Techniques and media for communicating information to consumers Placebo effects Australia's contribution The international editorial base for the Consumers and Communication Review Group is based at Latrobe University, Victoria Australia. The coordinating editor and the review group coordinator are both Australian. There are five other Australians on the editorial team including the trial search coordinator The Victorian Government Department of Human Services and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing provide funding for the editorial base who support reviewers and review activity globally Thirty three Australian reviewers have published reviews or protocols. View full list of Australian reviewers Australian Members of the Editorial Team: Sophie Hill - Coordinating Editor Megan Prictor - Review Group Coordinator Dell Horey - Editor Judy Stoelwinder - Trial search coordinator Andrea Driscoll - Voluntary Research assistant Sally Fawkes - Voluntary Research assistant Madeleine King - Advisor, Statistics and Outcome Measures Contacts The Consumers and Communication Review Group Co-ordinator is Dr Megan Prictor. (source: Broclain D, Hill S, Horey D, Lewin S, Oliver S, Prictor M, Stoelwinder J, Wensing M Consumers & Communication Group . In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 1, 2004. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.).

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