RevMan is software designed for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews. It helps organize data extraction, risk of bias assessment, analysis, and reporting for systematic reviews and meta analyses.
RevMan (Review Manager) is proprietary software developed and maintained by the Cochrane Collaboration. It is designed to help authors prepare and maintain Cochrane Reviews, which summarize the evidence from medical research around a specific intervention or treatment. Key features of RevMan include:
- A structured interface for entering details about studies, characterizing risk of bias, collecting data, analyzing results, and generating reports
- Tools for meta-analyses to statistically combine study results and assess heterogeneity
- Graphics such as forest plots, risk of bias graphs, funnel plots for assessing publication bias
- Exporting data and analyses to create full Cochrane Review articles in various formats like Docx or LaTeX
RevMan aims to make the process of preparing high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses more efficient. As Cochrane Reviews are considered a gold standard for evidence syntheses in medicine, RevMan plays an important role in evidence-based practice. However, it does require training and has a steep learning curve.