Review Manager (RevMan) is the software used to prepare and maintain Cochrane reviews. It allows you to prepare the text, build tables, add study data, and conduct meta-analyses with Forest plot outputs. RevMan 5 works on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
For those of you familiar with RevMan, version 5 was released in March 2008. The new version goes beyond reviews of interventions to address reviews of diagnostic test accuracy, methodology reviews, and overviews of reviews. With a new, user-friendly interface, authors work in a single document that is easily shared with co-authors and editors. RevMan5 works as a client to the Cochrane Archie central server, which is used to manage Cochrane reviews for publication to The Cochrane Library.
For RevMan 5 and other related resources:
• Download RevMan 5 software
* RevMan 5 User Guide is included with software installation.
• RevMan 5 tutorial
• RevMan 5 FAQ
• Other related documentation
Getting involved as a Review Author: If you have expertise in some aspect of healthcare, consider joining the relevant Cochrane Review Group. If there is not yet a group which covers your specialty, register your interest in being part of a new group. Being part of a Cochrane review group provides the support, resources and training to tackle a systematic review, and an international audience when your work is published in The Cochrane Library.
Contact Cochrane Centres or Review Groups about local workshops and courses in review production. Some of these events are listed on the Cochrane workshops page.