Back to the future of nursing through the Cochrane Collaboration

摘要

As I prepared content for this editorial, the movie Back to the Future was playing on television (Zemeckis et al. 1985). I reflected on my present nursing practice and what it would be like to go back in time prior to the Cochrane Collaboration, formed in 1993. In the early 1990s, evidence-based practice was an emerging concept. The Internet browser had just been introduced (GCN 2007). Internet searching of literature and access to high quality systematic reviews were limited.As a nursing student, I answered clinical questions by using card catalogues to find research articles or books. For those of you who are not familiar with card catalogues, they are large cabinets containing cards for articles and books stored in libraries. Libraries housed rows upon rows of card catalogues. To find relevant articles, I would need to search through hundreds of cards using subject terms or just plain luck.