Introduction to RevMan 5: converting reviews from RevMan 4

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Introduction to RevMan 5 converting reviews
from RevMan 4
Friday, 25 January 2008Oxford, UKSonja
Henderson, Karen Hovhannisyan
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Acknowledgement
The slides are adapted from a presentation at a
symposium for Australasian review authors
Brisbane, 11 July 2007 Jointly presented by
Liz Dooley (Information Management System Team)
Veronica Pitt (Australasian Cochrane Centre)
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Working with reviews in RevMan 5
Author checks out review using RevMan 5
CRG gives user account to authors
Work on review
Review stored in Archie
CRG creates review from template
Authors checks in review using RevMan 5
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RevMan editing tool

• New editing features
• Document based
• Improved text editor
• Track changes and notes
• Undo system
• Real time spell checking and validation
• Improved copy, move and renumber

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Structural Changes

• Contact details only edited in Archie
• Dates / Whats new / History
• Fixed main text headings and recommended
  subheadings
• Summary of Findings tables
• Risk of Bias tables per study
• Adding figures in text of review
• Appendices

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RevMan 5 interface
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Working on reviews in RevMan
Check out Protocol/Review From Archie
In order to access Archie go to Tools gt
Preferences gt Connection
Once connected to Archie, the protocols and
reviews you are authorised to access, will appear
in the Check Out window
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Author Contact details
Details entered from Archie
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Dates and updates

• No more substantive or minor updates
• New scheme (i.e. update, amendment, new citation)

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New scheme
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Dates and updates
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Plain language summary
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New text headings

• Fixed headings
• Recommended subheadings
• De-activated for existing reviews
• Author defined subheadings
• Styles available to add new subheadings

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Text editing tools

• Import Background text under recommended headings
• Formatting text
• Spell-checking
• Track changes
• Notes

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Studies references

• Create study IDs
• Add references
• Manual entry
• Import

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TablesRisk of bias

• Replace quality with risk of bias
• New Collaboration-wide tool for assessing risk of
  bias
• New Risk of bias table (part of Characteristics
  of included studies)
• Presents description and judgment for each of 6
  domains
• Domains optional and inactive for existing reviews

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Characteristics of included studies
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Summary of findings tables

• New table
• Import from GRADEProfiler
• Build in RevMan
• For each main outcome (benefits and harms)
• Control group risk
• Absolute effect
• Relative effect
• Amount of evidence
• Quality of evidence

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Data and analyses

• Integrated analysis tools
• Graphs updated in real time
• IV method for dichotomous data
• Test for subgroup differences
• Easy to do sensitivity analyses
• Improved number precision
• Data exchange features

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Integrated analysis tools
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Figures

• Analyses now treated as supplementary material
• Selected analyses can be inserted as Figures in
  text of review
• forest plots
• funnel plots
• Risk of bias summary table
• Risk of bias graph
• additional figures

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Appendices

• Supplementary material
• Suitable for
• detailed search strategies
• data extraction forms
• detailed statistical methods

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Anything else?Questions?
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