Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (the Handbook) provides guidance to authors for the preparation of Cochrane Intervention reviews. Access is free and you can browse the Handbook online: https://handbook.cochrane.org/.

Please refer to the Handbook web site for the most recent version (current: version 5.1.0), for interim updates to the guidance and for details of previous versions.

*NEW: The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is now available in Simplified Chinese, thanks to the hard work of the Chinese Cochrane Center and colleagues, with funding from the Cochrane Central Executive. You can access the translated Handbook from https://community.cochrane.org/handbook.

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy

The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy is currently being prepared by the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Group. As each chapter is completed it will be published on this website: https://srdta.cochrane.org/handbook-dta-reviews.