The Review process

The Cochrane Collaboration is an organisation committed to improving health care practice through the production of systematic reviews. If you think that you may be interested in undertaking a review for the Cochrane Renal Group, the first thing to do is to approach the Editorial Base in Sydney.

Enquiries about the Cochrane Renal Group review process are most welcome and will not be viewed as a commitment to undertake a review.

A Cochrane review is submitted in four stages:

How long should a review take?

A Cochrane review is never 'finished'. There are, however, steps along the way that we can roughly estimate.

Title to protocol: approx. 3 months

Protocol to review: approx. 6-12 months

Updates: at least every 2 years (an annual literature search is made by the Trials Search Coordinator to locate any new trials for you)

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Introduction to writing
a Cochrane systematic review:
Sydney workshops 2012
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