Latest changes

  • Titles of Cochrane reviews
    Description of the change: Adjusted 'Cochrane Review' to 'Cochrane review'.
    Information added about overviews and QES reviews.
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  • When to use abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
    Description of the change: Text changed from 'at the beginning of these sections' to 'the first time they are mentioned in these sections'.
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  • Formatting of abbreviations
    Description of the change: 'world health organisation (WHO)' added
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  • Common abbreviations
    Description of the change: NNTB/NNTH swapped to alphbetical order.
    Abbreviations alphabetised
    COVID-19 added
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  • Abbreviations to avoid
    Description of the change: Latin dosing moved to within table.
    More examples added (month, year)
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  • Punctuation
    Description of the change: Advice regarding whether to use lower- or upper-case letters after colons now specifies that upper case letters should only be used for proper nouns and acronyms; new examples have been added to illustrate this.
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  • Symbols and special characters
    Description of the change: Removed unicode information for the minus sign, as this does not work across all platforms; the symbol should now be obtained from the Special characters dialogue in RevMan.
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  • Lists
    Description of the change: Addition of an example of a bulleted list with nested points.
    Change for clarity about lists within paragraphs.
    Some typos corrected. RevMan 5 changed to RevMan.
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  • Cochrane review software
    Description of the change: References to 'Review Manager 5' and 'RevMan 5' adjusted to 'Review Manager' and 'RevMan', respectively.
    Software used on Cochrane Reviews changed to Software used for Cochrane Reviews
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  • Cochrane review specific
    Description of the change: Adjusted 'Cochrane Review' to 'Cochrane review'
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