Cochrane Pakistan: A Gigantic Leap Forward for Research in Pakistan

Authors

  • Sikandar Hayat Khan Department of Molecular Diagnostic Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi Pakistan
  • Sohail Sabir Head of Medicine Department Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan
  • Raheel Iftikhar Consultant Clinical Haematologist & BMT Specialist AFBMTC/NIBMT/NUMS, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51253/pafmj.v76i2.14500

Abstract

Pakistan, though a country with maximized potential in terms of young has enormous capacity to evolve and prevail for managing us an exponential technological growth and economy. However, the scarcity in systematic methods to prevail education and most importantly in the field of high-end education. Methodologically generated “Quality evidence” throughout globe defines a direct correlation between education with income generation, country’s productivity and quality technology incorporation.1 Defining education as the “Linchpin of success” we must acknowledge towards the foundation pivot for proliferating evolutionary education for humanity to be the next to superlative application of research”. The science of “Human Medicology” is exclusively leaning upon quality evidence for applying clinical decision making for patients. While the science of medicine on earthly souls’ dates back to prehistory, perseverant transformative efforts by our ancestors allowed us to this day where the tagging “methodology” to research for quality output to evidence can allow today’s human growth from convention to accelerated AI era.2 “Cochrane” was one great healthcare research giant leap which revolutionized the use of “Medical evidence” in clinical care pathways. “Archibald Cochrane” the stamped as the father of “Cocrane Collaboration” with renaming in 1993 by “Liam Chalmers” labeling simply as “Cochrane further adding to next-general superbness to evidence synthesis with summation of utilitarian IT tools.3

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30-04-2026

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Khan SH, Sabir S, Iftikhar R. Cochrane Pakistan: A Gigantic Leap Forward for Research in Pakistan. Pak Armed Forces Med J [Internet]. 2026 Apr. 30 [cited 2026 May 21];76(2):137-8. Available from: https://www.pafmj.org/PAFMJ/article/view/14500