Cochrane Renal Group

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:

  1. The title
  2. The protocol
  3. The review
  4. The update to the review

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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New Reviews
Cochrane Library
Issue 2 April 2008


Immunosuppressive treatment for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in adults


Interventions for renal vasculitis in adults


16th Cochrane Colloquium
Freiburg, Germany
3-7 Oct 2008

 

Systematic Review Workshops

4-5 Dec 2008
Centre for Kidney Research
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
[Details]

Are you interested in writing a review?

Check our potential review titles or just contact us!

Help us with our Renal Trials Register

Do you have conference proceedings [books or cd-roms] that you no longer need or could lend to us for hadsearching? If so, email Ruth Mitchell for details

Handsearching

Are you interested in helping us handsearch journals or conference proceedings. To find out more about our handsearching activities, email Ruth Mitchell