RevMan can generate a variety of figures that you can include in your review. The main types are:
Analysis graphs - such as forest plots and SROC curves.
Risk of bias figures - in Diagnostic reviews, these are called 'Risk of bias and applicability concerns' figures.
Flow diagrams - such as study selection flow diagrams.
Including a RevMan figure in your review is a two-step process:
First, create the figure in the Figures section.
Then add a link to the figure within the text of the review.
When a figure has been created, it will be updated automatically if the underlying data are changed.
To create a figure
Click the Figures heading in the outline, and click
Add figure.
The New Figure Wizard opens.
Select the type of figure and click Next.
If you are creating a forest plot, funnel plot or
SROC plot, choose the analysis or outcome to use in the figure and
click Next.
Select an item in the left pane to see a preview of the figure in the
right pane.
Risk of bias, or Flowchart figures do not require this step.
Modify the caption, if necessary.
RevMan suggests a caption automatically, based on the name of the analysis
or outcome used.
If you are creating a Risk of bias and applicability concerns figure,
and have more than one Test Group, you can choose which groups to
include in the figure.
Click Finish.
The figure is created with the lowest available number.
When a figure has been added, you must create a link to it in the text to ensure it is published.
Once a forest plot is included as a figure, you can use the figure properties to control additional aspects of its appearance, such as which columns to include, the number of decimals used, and whether to include a risk of bias summary.
If you enable Show RoB Summary in Forest Plots and Outcome Tables under Interface preferences, any new Forest Plot figure you create will include the risk of bias summary by default, but no existing figure will be modified.
If a review with figures that includes the Rob Summary is opened in RevMan 5.2 or earlier, the Rob Summary will not be displayed. If the review is then saved or checked in, those figures will lose the setting, and it must be reapplied using RevMan 5.3.
See also Adding a figure from a file