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.

• The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
• You can download chapter-sized PDF files of the Handbook here.
• It is also available in a nice hardbound edition.

RevMan 5

You will also need to download the RevMan 5 software:

• RevMan 5
• USER GUIDE for RevMan 5 (it's also contained in the software's "Help" menu)
• By the way, here is the link to "Archie" as well.

GRADE

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

• GRADEpro
• Here are some resources for understanding and using the GRADE approach to rating the quality of evidence, and creating Summary of Findings tables.
• A VERY BASIC introduction to GRADE

Cochrane Style Resource

• Cochrane Style Resource
  Compare your Cochrane Review against the official style guide.

Comprehensive HIV/AIDS database and trials registry search

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!

• Click HERE to fill out and submit form for a database and trials registry search.

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.