If you have expertise in some aspect of healthcare, consider joining a Cochrane Review Group. If there is not yet a group which covers your specialty, register your interest and join Cochrane. Being part of a Cochrane review group provides the support, resources and training to tackle a systematic review, and an international audience when your work is published in The Cochrane Library.

• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - guide to producing Cochrane reviews
  
  
• MECIR (Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews) - Cochrane review standards
  
  
• RevMan - documentation and support for software for preparing and maintaining Cochrane reviews
  
  
• Risk of bias 2 - information about the most current tool
  
  
• GRADEpro - is the software used to create Summary of Findings (SoF) tables in Cochrane reviews
  
  
• TIDieR author tool - designed to guide you through completing each of the 12 TIDieR checklist items
  
  
• Cochrane Style Resource - official style guide all Cochanre reviews must adhere to
  
  
• Using Individual Patient Data - Power Point slides
  
  
• Reporting Guidelines
  - CONSORT - reporting of RCTs
  - PRISMA - preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  - STROBE - reporting of observational studies in epidemiology
  - EQUATOR Network - collection of reporting guidelines
  
  
• Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Group
  
  
• Re-publishing of reviews - explanation of procedures and permission form if you wish to re-publish your review in another scientific journal
  
  

Training

• Local workshops and courses in review production are listed on the Cochrane workshops page.
  
  
• Delve into the extensive world of Cochrane Online Learning materials.