Review Manager (RevMan) is The Cochrane Collaboration’s software for preparing and maintaining Cochrane reviews.
RevMan facilitates preparation of protocols and full reviews, including text, characteristics of studies, comparison tables, and study data. It can perform meta-analysis of the data entered, and present the results graphically.
In addition to reviews of studies of the effects of healthcare interventions, you can use RevMan to write reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies, reviews of studies of methodology and overviews of reviews. This help file focuses primarily on of Cochrane Intervention reviews, with special sections for the features that are specific to the other review types.
Even if you are not new to RevMan, the Getting started section is a good place to begin.
We kindly ask you to cite RevMan whenever its output is used in works other than Cochrane Reviews. RevMan is cited as: Review Manager (RevMan) [Computer program]. Version 5.3. Copenhagen: The Nordic Cochrane Centre, The Cochrane Collaboration, 2014.
Help file last updated for RevMan 5.3.3 (24 June 2104).