Developing a protocol
A protocol expands on the title to describe the review.
As a rough guide, your protocol will need to address the following issues:
- The specific purpose (question to be answered) of the review
- The comparison groups (as the stated comparisons are central to each
review, particular care should be taken with their development)
- The sources and search methods used to find evidence (primary studies)
- Explicit criteria for deciding which studies to include in the review
- Avoidance of bias in the selection of articles
- Reasons for excluding studies from the review
- Appropriate criteria for assessing the quality of the studies
- Appropriate methods (whether qualitative or quantitative) for combining
the findings
For more information read the following document:
How to write a protocol - Word
version 
or PDF version
When you have developed your protocol to your own satisfaction,
it should be submitted to the Editorial Base. This means it will be entered
into the Renal Group's referee process, en route to inclusion in the Cochrane
Library.
Submission of the protocol is taken as your agreement
to undertake a Renal Group systematic review. Therefore, you should only
submit the protocol if this is your intention.
Headings of a Cochrane protocol
(Extract from Chapter 2 of the
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (formerly the Reviewers' Handbook) )
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- BACKGROUND
- OBJECTIVES
- CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERING STUDIES FOR THIS REVIEW
- TYPES OF STUDIES
- TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS
- TYPES OF INTERVENTION(S)
- TYPES OF OUTCOME MEASURES
- SEARCH STRATEGY FOR IDENTIFICATION OF STUDIES
- METHODS OF THE REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
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