Professor
Archibald Leman Cochrane (
1909-
1988) was a British medical researcher whose book
Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services (1972) and subsequent advocacy caused increasing acceptance of the
evidence-based medicine concept. Cochrane's work was honoured through the naming of centres of evidence-based medical research -
Cochrane Centres[?] - and an international organisation - The
Cochrane Collaboration.