Documentation Index

These are the latest versions of the RevMan 5 documentation.

• Top Tips for Authors

  Top tips for Authors using RevMan 5 and Archie

• The RevMan Tutorial

  The RevMan Tutorial is a self-training package that in a few hours will lead you through the basics of preparing a Cochrane review in RevMan. It is automatically installed with RevMan 5 and can be accessed from the Help menu.
  You can also download it here as a zip file.

• The RevMan User Guide

  The RevMan User Guide is utomatically installed with RevMan 5, and can be accessed from the Help menu.
  You can also download it from here as a pdf file.

• Introduction to RevMan 5

  Webinars* presented by the Canadian Cochrane Network & Centre.
  Part 1 and Part 2.
  * You might be requested to install Java on you computer

• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews

  The latest version of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is available from the Cochrane Reviewers' Handbook webpage.

• The Style Guide

  The Style Guide is being continuously updated. The latest version is available from the Cochrane Style Guide webpage.
  More information related to the Style Guide at the Cochrane Style Resource webpage.
  

• The RevMan Tutorial for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews

  The RevMan Tutorial for DTA reviews is designed to give Cochrane review authors an introduction to the process of writing a Cochrane systematic review of the accuracy of diagnostic tests using RevMan. The approximate time needed to complete this tutorial will be about two to three hours.
  You can also download a zip file containing the tutorial together with a sample Review and a sample 'DTA study references' file.

• Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group

  The Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group web page provides resources and information to all those involved in preparing Cochrane systematic reviews of the accuracy of diagnostic tests.

• Reference Management files

  Configuration files used for transferring references between RevMan and reference management software (both ways) can be downloaded from here.

• Validation rules

  See the rules used in review validation.

• Standard Statistical Algorithms in Cochrane Reviews

  Version 5 - by Jon Deeks and Julian Higgins on Behalf of the Statistical Methods Group of The Cochrane Collaboration.

• Release of RevMan 5 and implications for a Cochrane Review Author

  Letter sent to all authors.