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Useful links (review development)
Getting started
Converting to full review stage in RevMan (pdf)
Style Manual Basics (pdf) (Home)
Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource (Home)
Screening and data extraction
PaPaS data extraction template (Excel)
NNT.RR calculation spreadsheet (Excel)
PRISMA study flow spreadsheet (Excel) and flowchart (pdf) (example Cochrane flowchart pdf)
Cochrane guidance
Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR; Home)
- Conduct standards: performing the review (C24-75) (pdf or link)
- Standards for reporting of new Cochrane intervention reviews (R1-109) (pdf or link)
- Standards for plain language summaries in Cochrane Reviews (PLEACS) (link to pdf)
Cochrane Handbook v5 (Home)
Risk of Bias version 2.0 (Home; correct at 5 April 2019)
PaPaS guidance
PaPaS Abstract Guidance for Authors (2019) (pdf)
GRADE and Summary of findings tables
GRADE resources
GRADE Summary of findings (SoF) tables
- Preparing SoF tables (Consumers and Communications Group, 2016) (pdf)
- Top ten common errors in SoF tables (Word doc)
- Worksheets for preparing SoF tables using GRADE (from EPOC) (Word doc)
Other guidance documents
Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Review Group resources (Home)
- Interpreting statistical significance (pdf)
- Reporting empty reviews and results from excluded studies (pdf)
- Synthesizing results when it does not make sense to do a meta-analysis (pdf)
- Which studies should be included in the "Characteristics of excluded studies" table? (pdf)
Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group resource (Home)
PaPaS screenshots of resolving common issues
- Accepting the licence for publication form (pdf)
- Activating RevMan headings (pdf)
- Adding a second reference to a study (pdf)
- Changing axis labels in RevMan (pdf)
- Checking preferences in RevMan (pdf)
- Delete a study from an analysis in RevMan (pdf)
- Deleting references in RevMan (pdf)
- Download a copy of the review in Archie (pdf)
- Import GRADE SoF table to RevMan (pdf)
- Insert analysis results in the text in RevMan (pdf)
Training, support and webinars
Involving People: getting people involved in review production (including Cochrane Consumers)
Cochrane Training (Home)
Cochrane policies
Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource (EPPR)
See also our policies page.