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An Editorial note is a short text statement that can be added to a Cochrane Review or protocol. On the Cochrane Library the Editorial note displays above the abstract.

Before publishing an editorial Editorial note, consult the Editorial notes policy and determine the type of Editorial note required and whether you need to contact the Editor in Chief or the Research Integrity team (by emailing emd@cochrane.org) in advance.

After publishing an Editorial note, please always

• notify the Editorial and Methods Department (emd@cochrane.org) with a link to the review or protocol, and
• notify David Hives at Wiley (dhives@wiley.com) with a link to

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• the review or protocol. Following your notification, David will update the PubMed and/or PubMed central version(s) of the article to include the Editorial note. 
  • David can manually add an Editorial note on PubMed and this will display within 24 hours.
  • The PubMed Central Support team add Editorial notes on PubMed Central and this can take up to 2 weeks. 

Editorial notes are created and managed in RevMan 5 or RevMan Web using the Published notes section. For details on how to add or edit an Editorial note, see the RevMan knowledge base. Editorial notes are published as part of a standard amendment or update workflow, using the 'amended' whatpublication workflow, To add an Editorial note to a published review, making no other changes to the review use the 'Amended' What's new event (no new citation). During the publication process, the Editorial note is extracted from the published notes and displayed separately.

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• This protocol will not be progressed to the review stage as it no longer meets Cochrane's methodological standards.
• This protocol will not be progressed to the review stage as there has been no progress with the review in XX months/years. New authors are being sought to take this topic forward.
• This protocol will not be progressed to a review because the topic is no longer considered a priority.
• To minimize research waste, this protocol will not be progressed to the review stage becasue because we are aware of another good-quality review on this topic already in progress/published (provide reference if applicable).

When published, the Editorial note will also display in the PDF version on the Cochrane Library and also above the plain language summary on https://www.cochrane.org/evidence. If the full text is on PubMed Central, the Editorial note will also be displayed there. Currently As noted above, David Hives at Wiley must be notified to ensure the Editorial note is not delivered added to PubMed , but Cochrane and Wiley are exploring the options for displaying notes on PubMedand/or PubMed Central.