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 (including Cochrane Overviews of reviews).

The current verion of the Handbook is available here. The previous versions and changes are described on the Handbook Versions and changes page.

How to cite this version of the handbook

Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.2 (updated February 2021). Cochrane, 2021. Available from www.training.cochrane.org/handbook. 

Keeping up to date

The Handbook is updated regularly to reflect advances in systematic review methodology and in response to feedback from users.