Version 6.5, 2024

Senior Editors: Julian Higgins¹, James Thomas²
Associate Editors: Jacqueline Chandler³, Miranda Cumpston^4,5, Tianjing Li⁶, Matthew Page⁴, Vivian Welch⁷

Part 1: About Cochrane Reviews I.     Introduction II.    Planning a Cochrane Review III.   Reporting the review III.S1 Supplementary material: Considerations and recommendations for figures in Cochrane reviews III.S2 Supplementary material: Guidance for writing a Cochrane Plain language summary IV.   Updating the review V.    Overviews of Reviews Part 2: Core methods Starting a review Determining the scope and questions Inclusion criteria & grouping for synthesis Searching & selecting studies 4.S1 Supplementary material: Technical supplement 4.S2 Supplementary material: Appendix of resources Collecting data Effect measures Bias and conflicts of interest Risk of bias in randomized trials Preparing for synthesis Meta-analyses Network meta-analyses Synthesis using other methods Bias due to missing results ‘Summary of findings’ tables & GRADE Interpreting results

Part 3: Specific perspectives in reviews Equity Intervention complexity Patient-reported outcomes Adverse effects Economic evidence 20.S Technical Supplement to Chapter 20: Integrated full systematic re Qualitative evidence Part 4: Other topics Prospective approaches Variants on randomized trials Including non-randomized studies Risk of bias in non-randomized studies Individual participant data

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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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