Collaborations

Belgian Red Cross-Flanders and CEBaP have a longstanding collaboration with Cochrane Belgium, hosted by the Belgian Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Cebam). The primary activities of Cochrane Belgium are to provide training and methodological support in conducting systematic reviews, and to disseminate the results of Cochrane reviews in Belgium. 

In collaboration with the doctoral schools of several Belgian universities, Cochrane Belgium hosts 3-day courses on conducting a systematic review. In 2025, courses were organized at Université Catholique de Louvain, KU Leuven, Ghent University and at the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology. CEBaP researcher Hans Scheers led the theoretical and practical sessions on "Analyzing dichotomous and continuous data and introducing meta-analysis" on each of these four occasions. 

New systematic review courses are coming in 2026. Consult the Cochrane Belgium website for updates on course dates and registration.

The mission of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) is to identify and review international science and information relevant to cardiopulmonary resuscitation, emergency cardiovascular care and first aid, and to offer consensus on treatment recommendations. The evidence evaluation process is performed by different task forces.

One of the CEBaP researchers is a member of the ILCOR First Aid Task Force. This Task Force identifies and prioritizes first aid questions to be addressed and performs detailed evidence reviews using the GRADE methodology.
 

EBPracticeNet is a consortium of Belgian organisations for which Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is a high priority, including  Belgian Red Cross-Flanders. They host a digital database with evidence-based guidelines for Belgian care providers, which also includes our first aid guideline for laypeople