Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (current version) (original) (raw)

Version 6.5, 2024

Senior Editors: Julian Higgins1, James Thomas2
Associate Editors: Jacqueline Chandler3, Miranda Cumpston4,5, Tianjing Li6, Matthew Page4, Vivian Welch7

Part 1: About Cochrane ReviewsI. IntroductionII. Planning a Cochrane ReviewIII. Reporting the reviewIII.S1 Supplementary material: Considerations and recommendations for figures in Cochrane reviewsIII.S2 Supplementary material: Guidance for writing a Cochrane Plain language summaryIV. Updating the reviewV. Overviews of ReviewsPart 2: Core methodsStarting a reviewDetermining the scope and questionsInclusion criteria & grouping for synthesisSearching & selecting studies4.S1 Supplementary material: Technical supplement4.S2 Supplementary material: Appendix of resourcesCollecting dataEffect measuresBias and conflicts of interestRisk of bias in randomized trialsPreparing for synthesisMeta-analysesNetwork meta-analysesSynthesis using other methodsBias due to missing results‘Summary of findings’ tables & GRADEInterpreting results Part 3: Specific perspectives in reviewsEquityIntervention complexityPatient-reported outcomesAdverse effectsEconomic evidence20.S Technical Supplement to Chapter 20: Integrated full systematic reQualitative evidencePart 4: Other topicsProspective approachesVariants on randomized trialsIncluding non-randomized studiesRisk of bias in non-randomized studiesIndividual participant data

1 University of Bristol, UK
2 EPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, UK
3 Wessex Academic Health Science Network, UK
4 School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
5 Cochrane Public Health; School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Australia
6 Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine & Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus USA; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
7 The Campbell Collaboration; Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada.

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