Workshop type: Training.

Objective: To provide RevMan trainers with an understanding of how RevMan 5 is different from RevMan 4. At the end of the workshop, participants will have been introduced to the new features in RevMan 5 and received guidance in how to train and assist review authors in the use of the software.

Summary:
Review Manager (RevMan) is The Cochrane Collaboration’s own software, which has been developed to assist review authors in writing systematic reviews in the Cochrane format. RevMan is developed by the Nordic Cochrane Centre under the direction of the RevMan Advisory Group and the Information Management System Group. The latest version, RevMan 5, has been updated with a host of new and improved features. The experience of ‘what you see is what you get’ is strongly improved. The new text editor will allow more formatting in more sections, including subheadings, tables embedded in the text, an d nested lists (lists within lists). The track-changes function and a new note system will facilitate the task of multiple authors working together on a review.

There is a new structure for the main text and support for appendices, and it is possible to select a few key forest plots or funnel plots to be displayed in the results section of a review. For intervention reviews, some of the most noticeable methodological changes across reviews are the introduction of Risk of Bias tables and Summary of Findings tables.

RevMan 5 also supports the preparation of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews and Overviews of Reviews, but the workshop will not cover training in these review types.

Workshop participants will be supplied with information and a core set of slides and training material to use in future training sessions.

Intended audience: People who deliver workshops or another form of training in RevMan, e.g. staff at Cochrane Centres and Review Group Co- ordinators (One person per Cochrane Centre or Cochrane Review Group).

Technical level expected of participants: Intermediate.