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EPOC resources for review authors



INTRODUCTION

These resources provide guidance for authors of Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) reviews. They have been developed by the EPOC editorial team. They are intended as a supplement to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, and are updated as needed.

The EPOC resources below are all licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

14 July 2021: We are in the process of moving our resources to a Zenodo Community

PROPOSING A NEW REVIEW

*** We are currently unable to accept new title proposals - please read this important funding update (January 2022) ***

Please submit proposals to conduct new Cochrane Reviews to Editorial Manager. Information about how to submit proposals via Editorial Manager is available in Editorial Manager Information for authors.

CRITERIA FOR REGISTERING A REVIEW

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DEVELOPING THE PROTOCOL

Methods

Search strategies

Other considerations

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CONDUCTING THE REVIEW

Data extraction

Risk of bias

Data analysis

Summary of findings

Other considerations

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REPORTING THE REVIEW

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SUBMITTING FOR EDITORIAL CONSIDERATION

ABOUT THESE RESOURCES

The EPOC resources have been prepared by the editorial team of Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC), a review group of Cochrane. The EPOC resources are all licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The suggested citation for this page is "Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC). EPOC Resources for review authors, 2017. Available at: epoc.cochrane.org/epoc-resources-review-authors"

To add references to these resources in Review Manager, please use the following format:

Reference type:Other
Authors:Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC)
English title:e.g. What study designs can be considered for inclusion in an EPOC review and what should they be called? EPOC resources for review authors, YYYY*
Journal/Book/Source:epoc.cochrane.org/epoc-resources-review-authors (accessed DD Month YYYY)

*Year of publication is the year from the cited resource

Preparation of these resources was supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Norad did not have a role in drafting, revising or approving the content.

Feedback about how to improve these resources is welcome and should be sent to: Elizabeth Paulsen.

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