Title Proposal Form

Please complete and email this form to:

Tracey Remmington or

Nikki Jahnke

Managing Editors

Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Group

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Proposal for a new Cochrane review

Authors completing this form must note that they are required to read and follow The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions in preparing their review.

  1. Proposed Title

Enter proposed title using standard format here
See Table 4.2a of Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 5.1

Ensure that the review question and particularly the outcomes of interest, address issues that are important to stakeholders such as consumers, health professionals and policy makers.

  1. Contact author name

Enter name of contact author here
  1. Motivation for the review

Enter details here, e.g. is this part of a PhD/Masters degree, etc, or career progression?

Details of author team

  1. Contact details and skills

Role / Name / Area of expertise
(please indicate the background and skills of each review author and the expertise they bring to the review team e.g. content, methodology; statistics)
Contact author
Co-author
Co-author
Co-author

Please add rows to the table above as necessary and attach a CV for each member of the author team. Please provide full contact details in the final section of this form.

  1. Role responsibilities

Task / Author(s) responsible
Protocol stage: draft the protocol
Review stage: select which trials to include (2 + 1 arbiter)
Review stage: extract data from trials (2 people)
Review stage: enter data into RevMan
Review stage: carry out the analysis
Review stage: interpret the analysis
Review stage: draft the final review
Review stage: draft the final review
Update stage: update the review
  1. Experience and available resources

Have you or a co-author written a systematic review before? / Yes/No
If yes, was it a Cochrane review?
Do you predominantly speak/write in a language other than English? / Yes/No
If yes, please give details.
Have you attended a Cochrane Review training workshop? / Yes/No
If yes, which one?
If no, are you planning to? Which one?
Have you already downloaded and installed RevMan 5, the Cochrane Review Manager software? ( / Yes/No
If yes, have you used it before?
Do you have access to reference management software? / Yes/No
If yes, which software and version?
Do you have access to a statistician? / Yes/No
  1. Potential conflicts of interest

Cochrane reviews should be free of any real or perceived bias introduced by the receipt of any benefit in cash or kind, any hospitality, or any subsidy derived from any source that may have or be perceived to have an interest in the outcome of the review. It is a matter of Cochrane policy that direct funding from a single source with a vested interest in the results of the review is not acceptable. Details of the full policy are available here.

If you or your co-authors have any interests in this topic that could be perceived as conflicts of interest, please give details below (add rows as necessary).

Name / Potential conflict of interest

Description of the proposal

  1. Objectives

What is the research question?
  1. Rationale for the review

Explain why the review is important. You may provide citations of relevant papers.
  1. Types of studies

Outline the types of studies that will be included in the review. Give thought to whether there are aspects of study methodology that you feel render particular studies invalid for inclusion, e.g. lack of randomisation, failure to conceal allocation or, in reviews where the outcomes are very subjective (e.g. global assessment of improvement or levels of depression), blinding of the outcome assessor.
See section 5.5 of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 5.1
  1. Types of participants

Outline the types of populations to be included and excluded, with thought given to aspects of the participants receiving the intervention, e.g. age and gender, the type/stage of disease/condition, the method of diagnosis, and co-morbidities.
See section 5.2 of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 5.1
  1. Interventions and specific comparisons to be made

Outline what variations of the intervention (e.g. dose, mode of delivery, who delivers it) will be included and the intervention will be compared to e.g. placebo or no treatment, or other interventions.
See section 5.3 of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 5.1
  1. Outcome measures

List primary (the main conclusions will be based on the primary outcomes) and secondary outcomes to be included in the review, giving thought to those likely to be important to those suffering the disorder as well as those treating them. Give thought to the inclusion of adverse effects. Finally, give some thought to how your outcomes may be measured, both the type of scale or count likely to be used and the timing of the measurement.
See section 5.4 of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 5.1
  1. Proposed subgroup analyses

Will certain factors be investigated for their influence on the size of the treatment effect, e.g. dose of active treatment?
See section 9.6 of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 5.1
  1. Is this review the subject of specific funding and/or does it need to be finished within a specific timeframe? If yes, please give details.

Enter details here
  1. Has the review already been carried out or published? If yes, where was it published?

Enter details here
  1. Any other relevant information

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Terms of the proposal

Agreement to Editorial Review and Publication in The Cochrane Library

By completing this title proposal form, you agree to submit a draft protocol within three months of acceptance of your proposal. If there is no correspondence from you during this period, or no draft protocol has been received, the Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Review Group reserves the right to de-register the title or transfer the title to a new author/team.

By completing and returning this form, you are accepting responsibility for maintaining and updating the review in accordance with Cochrane’s policy, i.e. you will be responsible for ensuring the review is updated at least every two years. If you are unable to update this review the Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Review Group reserves the right to transfer the review to a new author/team.

The support of the editorial team in producing your review is conditional upon your agreement to publish the protocol, the full review and subsequent updates in The Cochrane Library. By completing and signing this form you undertake to publish firstly in The Cochrane Library (concurrent publication in other journals may be allowed in certain circumstances with prior permission of the editorial team).

The Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Review Group reserves the right to withdraw any protocol/review if it does not meet our editorial standards.

Provisional dates for submission of drafts to editorial base:

(A)Draft PROTOCOL

(B)Draft REVIEW

I understand the long-term commitment necessary when undertaking a Cochrane review.

Form completed by: ……………………………………………… Date: …….………………

Details of contact author

Prefix (e.g. Ms, Dr)
First name
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Email address/web address
Job title/position
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Gender / Male/female
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Details of co-author

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Details of co-author

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First name
Middle names
Family name
Email address/web address
Job title/position
Department
Organisation
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City
State/Province
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Telephone (landline) number
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Gender / Male/female
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Details of co-author

Prefix (e.g. Ms, Dr)
First name
Middle names
Family name
Email address/web address
Job title/position
Department
Organisation
Street address
City
State/Province
Post/Zip code
Telephone (landline) number
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Gender / Male/female
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Details of co-author

Prefix (e.g. Ms, Dr)
First name
Middle names
Family name
Email address/web address
Job title/position
Department
Organisation
Street address
City
State/Province
Post/Zip code
Telephone (landline) number
Mobile number
Country of origin
Gender / Male/female
Hide address details / Yes/No
Hide email address / Yes/No
Hide mobile phone number / Yes/No
Bulk mailings / None/from primary entity only/from affiliated entities only/all

Trusted evidence.

Informed decisions.

Better health.