FOCUS: Technical Brief
The Use of CIRRIE's Database of International Rehabilitation Research in Conducting Systematic Reviews
This FOCUS, describes the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange’s (CIRRIE) bibliographic database of International Rehabilitation Research. The database is useful for conducting systematic reviews. It includes research conducted in most geographic regions of the world as well as citations to articles originally published in languages other than English.
[On-line]. Available:
http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus23
NCDDR, Campbell Collaboration Announce Disability Subgroup
SEDL's NCDDR has worked with the Campbell Collaboration (C2) to develop a disability subgroup that will provide support and resources for disability researchers who are conducting systematic reviews.
NCDDR Director John Westbrook wrote a formal letter of request to the C2 Steering Group to consider the addition of a Disability topic to the current C2 topics of Education, Social Welfare, and Criminal Justice. The disability subgroup was approved in March, 2008 as part of the Campbell Collaboration's Education Coordinating Group (ECG), an international network of scholars, policy makers, practitioners, funders, students, and others who are interested in evidence-based practice and systematic reviews.
Westbrook and Ralf Schlosser, a professor and chairman of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Northeastern University, will serve as co-chairs of the disability subgroup. The subgroup will provide guidance and review to researchers undertaking a systematic review. The current issue of FOCUS Technical Brief, No. 20, provides additional information and offers an invitation to disability and rehabilitation researchers to participate with the new Disability Subgroup. To discuss your ideas for a C2 disability-related systematic review, contact john.westbrook@sedl.org.
Link to SEDL News Release (July 22, 2008)
