Review Authors
RevMan 5
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.
- Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - the official guide to producing Cochrane reviews
- RevMan web page - documentation and support for software for preparing and maintaining Cochrane reviews
- GRADEpro - (GRADEprofiler) is the software used to create Summary of Findings (SoF) tables in Cochrane systematic reviews
- Cochrane Style Resource - compare your Cochrane Review against the official style guide
- Using Individual Patient Data - Power Point slides
- Re-publishing of reviews - explanation of procedures and permission form if you wish to re-publish your review in another scientific journal
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Reporting Guidelines
CONSORT - reporting of RCTs
PRISMA (formerly QUOROM) [PDF document] - preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
STROBE - reporting of observational studies in epidemiology
EQUATOR Network - collection of reporting guidelines - Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Group
- Submission deadlines - includes information on deadlines for Copy Edit Support and module/CENTRAL submissions, as well as publication dates for The Cochrane Library
Training - face-to-face
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.
Training - online
- Open Learning Materials - learn the steps in convenient online modules which supplement the Cochrane Reviewers' Handbook in helping you gain skills and complete your review.
Training resources provided by other organizations:
- Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness - an extensive guide by the NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination
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