Author resources

  • The Cochrane Handbook
  • RevMan 5
  • GRADE
  • Cochrane Style Resource
  • Comprehensive searches
  • Normative time for completion
  • Concise representation of the Cochrane review process

The Cochrane Handbook

First and foremost, if you are currently working on a Cochrane review of an intervention, it is imperative that you develop a close relationship with the latest edition of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

RevMan 5

You will also need to download the RevMan 5 software:

GRADE

If you are going to perform analyses using the GRADE approach (strongly encouraged), you will need to have the GRADEpro software:

NOTE: Your Protocol should already have been through peer review BEFORE you submit this form. In other words, please do not use this form until you have submitted the “final” (and ready to publish) version of your protocol to the "Archie" system. Thanks!

Normative time for completing a Cochrane review with our Group

From Title Registration to Protocol:

  • The draft Protocol (before peer review) is expected within 6 months. If, however, we have not received it after 12 months, we may make the title available again.

From Protocol to completed Review:

  • The draft Review (before peer review) is expected within 18 months (counting from the protocol's final submission). If not received after 24 months after the protocol's final submission, we may make the title available again.

You could make the timeline above a bit larger, if you clicked on it.

 

A concise representation of the Cochrane review process. Click on it to enlarge.

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