MECIR Manual

Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews
(MECIR)

Version February 2022

Standards for the conduct and reporting of new Cochrane Intervention Reviews, reporting of protocols and the planning, conduct and reporting of updates

Julian Higgins1, Toby Lasserson2, Jackie Chandler3, David Tovey4, James Thomas5, Ella Flemyng2, Rachel Churchill6

1 Professor of Evidence Synthesis, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
2 Cochrane Evidence Production and Methods Directorate, Cochrane, London, UK
3Evaluation Programme Manager, Wessex Academic Health Science Network, Southampton, UK
4 Editor in Chief (2009-2019), Cochrane Library, UK
5Professor of Social Research and Policy, University College London, London, UK
6 Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK

 

These MECIR Standards present a guide to the conduct and reporting of Cochrane Intervention Reviews.  Each set of Standards includes links to Cochrane Training resources, the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (the Handbook) and other available resources.

This online version will be kept up to date. A PDF of each section can be generated. All substantive changes will be noted here.

  • MECIR Standards link to the most up-to-date version of the Handbook chapters.
  • Where links to external resources are included Cochrane Interactive Learning is referred to as 'CIL'.
  • We welcome your feedback on MECIR, or if you have any general queries related to the MECIR Standards, please contact support@cochrane.org.
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05/04/2019 - Change made to Jackie Chandler's annotation
07/08/2019 - Version 1.07 to Version July 2019
25/9/2019: major edits to the text to bring it up to date and in line with the revised 2019 Handbook.
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Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews
(MECIR)
Version October 2019

Standards for the conduct and reporting of new Cochrane Intervention Reviews, reporting of protocols and the planning, conduct and reporting of updates
Julian Higgins1, Toby Lasserson2, Jackie Chandler4, David Tovey2, Rachel Churchill3
1 Professor of Evidence Synthesis, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
2 Cochrane Editorial Unit, Cochrane, London, UK
3 Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK
4 Oxford, UK
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Julian Higgins1, Toby Lasserson2, Jackie Chandler3, David Tovey4, James Thomas5, Ella Flemyng2, Rachel Churchill6
1 Professor of Evidence Synthesis, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
2 Cochrane Editorial and Methods Department, Cochrane, London, UK
3 Evaluation Programme Manager, Wessex Academic Health Science Network, Southampton, UK
4 Editor in Chief (2009-2019), Cochrane Library, Editorial and Methods Department
5 Professor of Social Research and Policy, University College London, London, UK
6 Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK

04/03/2020
MECIR versioning update from October 2019 to March 2020

24/02/2021
MECIR versioning update from March 2020 to February 2021
Change date
24 February 2021