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Archie Cochrane

1909 - 1988

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Archibald Leman Cochrane (12 January 1909 – 18 June 1988) was a Scottish physician noted for his book, Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services, which advocated the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to improve clinical trials and medical interventions. His advocacy of RCTs eventually led to the creation of the Cochrane Library database of systematic reviews, the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford and Cochrane (previously known as the Cochrane Collaboration), an international organization of review groups that are based at research institutions worldwide. He is known as one of the fathers of modern clinical epidemiology and is considered to be the originator of the idea of evidence-based medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archie Cochrane has received more than 184,288 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Archie Cochrane is the 633rd most popular physician, the 4,354th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 57th most popular British Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Archie Cochrane ranks 633 out of 726. Before him are María Teresa Ferrari, William H. Welch, Anders Tegnell, Andrea Andreen, Harry Benjamin, and Fidel Pagés. After him are Jean Alexandre Barré, George E. P. Box, Robert Atkins, Thomas Lewis, Edward Angle, and Maria Vorontsova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Archie Cochrane ranks 353. Before him are Alex Raymond, Gregorio Blasco, Karel Burkert, Vlasta Děkanová, Sabir Yunusov, and Stephen Spender. After him are Colin Munro MacLeod, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Robert Burks, Mohamed Latif, Eleanor Garatti, and Wilhelm Müller. Among people deceased in 1988, Archie Cochrane ranks 221. Before him are Roy Kinnear, John Loder, Gerd Hornberger, Ella Raines, Lin Carter, and Axel Grönberg. After him are Rudolf Gramlich, André Saeys, Willi Apel, Judith Barsi, Sten Suvio, and Hilda Gobbi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archie Cochrane ranks 4,354 out of 8,785. Before him are Conleth Hill (1964), James Corden (1978), Adam Godley (1964), Malcolm Campbell (1885), Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), and Boz Burrell (1946). After him are Chris Bonington (1934), George William Russell (1867), David O'Leary (1958), Jake Weber (1963), Hanif Kureishi (1954), and Innes Ireland (1930).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Archie Cochrane ranks 57. Before him are William Stukeley (1687), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), Astley Cooper (1768), Emily Blackwell (1826), and Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707). After him are George E. P. Box (1919), Thomas Lewis (1881), Almroth Wright (1861), Sophia Jex-Blake (1840), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), and Thomas C. Jerdon (1811).

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