General resources

Software

• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 
• Cochrane Style Manual
• MECIR Manual
• GRADE approach and training
• Risk of bias-2 tool
• Training website
• Review Author Starter Kit
• Good Practice Resources for New Cochrane Authors
• Involving People: A learning resource for systematic review authors
• Rejection policy

Complex Methods

• Tools and guidance for prognosis methods review authors (Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group)
• Resources for DTA review authors (Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group)
• Relevant publications and resources for NMA authors (Cochrane Comparing Multiple Interventions Methods Group)

• Cochrane Software
• Archie
• GRADEpro GDT (to generate Summary of Findings tables)

RevMan

• Review Manager (RevMan) is the core software for producing Cochrane Reviews
• Top Tips for Using RevMan and Archie

*RevMan web is the recommended platform for intervention reviews. RevMan 5 (desktop) can be used for other review formats, and alongside Revman Web. RevMan 5 is no longer being developed or updated.

Emergency and Critical Care Author Resources

CORE Outcome Measures

• Top tips for using Archie and RevMan
• Instructions for writing an intervention protocol (Updated October 2019)
• Instructions for writing an intervention review
• Instructions for updating an intervention review (Updated April 2020)
• Instructions for writing a DTA protocol
• Instructions for writing a DTA review
• Screening criteria - please check your review against these points
• Search Strategies and Reporting (Updated October 2021)
  • Guidance for developing search strategies
  • Guidance for search-related reporting in protocols and reviews

Authors conducting reviews on related topics should consider consulting these publications on core outcome measures

• Core Outcome Measures for Research in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Acute Respiratory or Cardiac Failure: An International, Multidisciplinary, Modified Delphi Consensus Study (2019)
• A Core Outcome Set for Critical Care Ventilation Trials (2019)
• Core Domains for Clinical Research in Acute Respiratory Failure Survivors: An International Modified Delphi Consensus Study