Calendar 2005–06

Faculty and Departmental Research/Consultancy Units 137 real-time quantitative PCR system, laminar flow hood, carbon dioxide incubator, and a variety of freezers and centrifuging machines. The Hong Kong Branch of the Chinese Cochrane Centre Tel.: 2252 8754/8779 Fax.: 2606 3500 E-mail: jltang@cuhk.edu.hk hkcochrane@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.hkcochrane.cuhk.edu.hk The Hong Kong Branch of the World Cochrane Collaboration was established in 2002. The World Cochrane Collaboration is an international organization aiming to help people make well-informed decisions about healthcare by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of the best research evidence about the effects of healthcare interventions. This international effort is crucial to evidence-based clinical practice and making evidence-based decisions on healthcare management, which will in turn help to increase the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. Drawing strength and expertise from the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Public Health, the branch works in partnership with the World Cochrane Collaboration, the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Peking University Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, and the Chinese Cochrane Centre. It strives to achieve the following in the greater China region: (1) to facilitate dissemination and application of research evidence on the effects of health care and promote evidence-based medicine; (2) to assist institutions and policy-makers in making evidence-based decisions in healthcare; (3) to initiate regional and international collaborative work in evidence-based medicine and in preparing and disseminating research evidence; and (4) to effectively link cochrane activities in the region with the international effort. The Hong Kong Centre for Evidence Based Nursing Tel.: 2609 6231 Fax.: 2603 5520 E-mail: davidthompson@cuhk.edu.hk The Hong Kong Centre for Evidence Based Nursing, established in 1997, aims to promote research-based nursing practice in Hong Kong. The centre, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, is based in the Nethersole School of Nursing at the University. The purposes of the centre are to improve the quality and effectiveness of nursing care, promote research in clinical nursing practice, provide education in clinical nursing research, and develop education programmes to advance research-based nursing practice. To carry out its aims, the centre • undertakes systematic reviews on areas of need in nursing practice; • develops and introduces best practice guidelines; • provides consultancy on improving clinical effectiveness; • evaluates the effectiveness of best practice guidelines; • participates in multi-site clinical trials evaluating nursing practice;