The next Cochrane Skin annual meeting will be held virtually on September 15 & September 16, 2022. It will be hosted by Cochrane Skin Editor Dr Aaron Drucker of the University of Toronto, and is sponsored by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis.

The 2020 CRG Impact Factor for the Cochrane Skin Group is 8.129.This therefore means that a review published by the Skin Group in 2018 and 2019 was cited, on average, 8.129 times in 2020 (31 publications cited 252 times). This has improved on the previous year, that was 7.500 (26 publications cited 195 times). Thank you to all who have contributed!The graph below shows our increasing unofficial impact factor year on year from 2016 to 2020.

The Core Outcome Measures for Food Allergy (COMFA) consortium and Cochrane Skin-Core Outcome Set Initiative (CS-COUSIN) invite you to attend a virtual, multi-stakeholder conference from September 23 to 28, 2021. 

We are excited to announce a Cochrane Skin Seminar (#S017) at the AAD summer meeting at the Tampa FL convention center. Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Translation for Clinical Dermatology: A Cochrane Skin PerspectiveAugust 8, 2021, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PMHere is the speaker line-up:

Eczema Care Online is a research project that aims to help people to self-manage their eczema.This project has reviewed the published evidence about the safety and effectiveness of topical corticosteroids.Now they want to consult with key stakeholders about how findings can best be refined and disseminated to maximise their usefulness.

Our latest publication is featured by Cochrane here.