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Cochrane peer review checklists can be used and modified as needed. It is not a requirement for Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs) to use these checklists, but some sections and statements are mandatory and must be sent to all peer reviewers (see below). These checklists provide a structured series of questions to guide peer reviewers through the process and provide structured peer review feedback. Guided peer review can be especially helpful to less experienced peer reviewers or for people undertaking named peer review.

The following checklists are available:

• Protocols and reviews of interventions
  • Intervention protocol
  • Intervention review
  • Intervention protocol consumer
  • Intervention review consumer
  • Also see guidance
• External peer review of protocols
• External peer review of reviews
• External peer review of overviews of reviews [protocols]
• External peer review of overviews of reviews [review]
• Consumer review of reviews
• Consumer review of protocols
• Guidance
  • on using the consumer reviewer checklist
• Protocols and reviews of overviews of Cochrane Reviews
  
  • Overview protocol
  • Overview review

Mandatory sections and statements that must be sent to peer reviewers

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