Welcome to the website of The Dutch Cochrane Centre. Here you find all information about our centre.

Unfortunately, our site is in Dutch. If your Dutch is not so good and you have a question for us, don't hesitate to contact us at cochrane@amc.uva.nl

The Dutch Cochrane Centre (DCC) was established in 1994 and is located in the department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. The DCC is the reference centre for The Netherlands, Belgium (see below), Aruba, Netherlands Antilles and Surinam.

In 2002, the Belgian Branch of the Dutch Cochrane Centre started its activities in Belgium for both the Flemish part and the Wallonian part. The Branch is located in the department of General Practice at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and is funded by the Belgian Ministry of Health. More information about their activities can be found at www.cebam.be

The Dutch Cochrane Centre hosts The Netherlands Trial Register, one of the first national registers that was acknowledged by the WHO. See trialregister.nl for more information.

Forthcoming training workshops
See page "cursussen en workshops"

Annual report
Annual reports 2010, 2009 and 2008 are available.

Funding and Support
Currently, the Dutch Cochrane Centre doesn’t receive any core funding. Our host, the Academic Medical Center kindly provides in kind support (office space, IT support, etc).
The Centre conducts commissioned projects relating to evidence synthesis. All additional funding comes from not-for-profit health institutions, such as the Dutch Health Care Insurance Board.  

Declaration of interests