This help file is focused on helping you use the software, and does therefore not provide guidance on review content or methodology. For such guidance please refer to the relevant Cochrane handbook or section, see below.
The Help menu also includes links to the websites for the Cochrane Style Resource and the Online Learning Modules.
If you need further assistance, please contact your Cochrane Review Group.
The Guidance pane Guidance pane to the right of the text can now show all MECIR reporting standards in context. The guidance is dynamically fetched from Archie when the user is online, so it can be updated in real time, but is also cached such that it is available offline. There content can be expanded in the future to include, for example, Training resources, Handbook Chapters, common errors, etc. This pane is set to view by default when RevMan opens up, and can be closed using the ‘x’ and opened again using the ‘i’ icon, it can also be turned off on start-up by deselecting on the ‘View’ menu.
The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is included with RevMan as a Help file.
To open the handbook
Choose Help > Handbook > Intervention Reviews.
Many sections of reviews have also been linked directly with a relevant section in the handbook.
To get context-specific handbook help
Do one of the following:
Right-click the element and choose Handbook.
In windows or tabs with a Handbook button, click Handbook.
RevMan also includes a link to the handbook website, where you may find information about handbook updates, an online version (with nicer formatting than is possible in the Help file included with RevMan), and information on how to obtain PDF versions of chapters for easier printing.
To visit the handbook website
Choose Help > Handbook > Intervention Reviews Website.
'Guide to the contents of a Cochrane review and protocol' of the Cochrane Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews is included with RevMan as help file, under Help > Handbook> Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews (Content Help).
For the latest version of the handbook for diagnostic reviews, see the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group website. To do so, choose Help > Handbook > Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews Website.
The handbook for intervention reviews has sections dedicated to each of these two review types.