Cochrane Training Website

Guidance

• Guidance for completion of your Cochrane Protocol or Review.
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - guide to how to produce a Cochrane review. The handbook chapters are also available as individual PDFs (Archie login required) or in Spanish.
• Cochrane Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR) conduct and reporting standards.
• Style manual - official style guide to authoring Cochrane reviews.
• Guides to:
• common errors and good practice
• Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized trials (RoB 2) and for Non-Randomized Studies - of Interventions (ROBINS-I)
• how to GRADE 
• incorporating GRADE findings
• preparing a Summary of Findings table 
• interpreting results
• plain language summaries
• CONSORT guidelines - guidelines for the reporting of RCTs.
• Sample Data Collection forms in Word for RCTs or RCTs and non-RCTs.

Software

• Archie - content management system used for storing and submitting Cochrane reviews.
• RevMan Web and RevMan 5 - used for preparing and maintaining Cochrane reviews. 
• GRADEpro - used to create Summary of Findings tables in Cochrane reviews.
• Covidence - web-based 3rd party software for collaborative citation screening, study selection, risk of bias assessment and data extraction.
• RAYYAN - 3rd party software for collaborative citation screening and study selection.
• 3rd party software for extracting data from linear and logarithmic graphs, when raw data is unavailable: Plot Digitizer, WebPlotDigitizer, G3data, Enguage
• 3rd party software for drafting basic text for the Effects of Interventions section based on the information in the Data and Analysis section: RevMan HAL.  (Please note study names in RevMan may not contain diacritic characters in order for the program to parse the data)

Related

• Resources from Cochrane 
• The Cochrane Library
• Core Outcome Meaures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET)
• Patient-reported outcomes - the following is a list of systematic reviews of patient reported outcome instruments, which may be relevant to authors whose Cochrane reviews include such instruments. This was compiled by the Cochrane Patient Reported Outcomes Methods group in August 2008.
  • Chassany O, Holtmann G, Malagelada J, Gebauer U, Doerfler H, Devault K. Systematic review: health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2008; 27(11):1053-1070.
  • Fraser A, Delaney B, Moayyedi P. Symptom-based outcome measures for dyspepsia and GERD trials: A systematic review. Am J Gastroenterol 2005; 100(2):442-452.
  • Maity S, Thomas AG. Quality of life in paediatric gastrointestinal and liver disease: a systematic review. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2007; 44(5):540-554.
  • Stanghellini V, Armstrong D, Monnikes H, Bardhan KD. Systematic review: do we need a new gastro-oesophageal reflux disease questionnaire? Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2004; 19(5):463-479.
  • Stanghellini V, Armstrong D, Monnikes H, Bardhan KD. Systematic review: do we need a new gastro-oesophageal reflux disease questionnaire? Digestion 2007; 75 Suppl 1:3-16.