Why we need Cochrane in Sweden
Today, evidence-based medicine is facing multiple serious challenges. Some claim that EBM has been hijacked by vested interests. We see an emphasis on surrogate outcomes with uncertain clinical value, on statistically significant results with marginal clinical benefit, and even outright manipulation of data. Publication bias and selective outcome reporting presents huge challenges and there is a clear tendency to focus on benefits, and disregard harms of interventions.
