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Please see Dates and events in RevMan Knowledge Base.
There are several date fields associated with a Cochrane Review (including protocols and updates), and some are for internal use (available in Review Manager only) and some are included in the published article; see Table.
Table. Overview of date fields in Cochrane Reviews: description, source of date, and where the dates are displayed
Type of date | Description | Added by | Displayed? | |||
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Unpublished (in RevMan) | Cochrane Library search results page | Published Cochrane Review | PubMed | |||
Published online | Date on which a new citation version of a review is published in the CDSR (specifically new and updated reviews) | Publisher | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Date of search | See Reporting search dates in Cochrane Reviews | Editorial team/authors | Yes | No | No | No |
Protocol first published | — | Cochrane | Yes | No | No | No |
Review first published | — | Cochrane | Yes | No | No | No |
Last citation issue | — | Cochrane | Yes | No | No | No |
CDSR: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; CR: Cochrane Review; RevMan: Review Manager. |