Cochrane Gynaecological Cancer Review Group - Policy

Policy on refereeing of protocols and reviews

All protocols and reviews should be refereed by one or more persons from each of the following groups:

Cochrane reviewers working in the area of interest
Consumers or representatives of consumers
Health care professionals who are not Cochrane reviewers
Statisticians or methods experts
Developing countries representatives

Refereeing is ‘open’ i.e. no attempt will be made to hide the identity of the reviewers or referees from each other. All feedback forms and other comments will be forwarded to the reviewers, along with a summary written by the contact editor.

When submittng the final version of the review for publication, the contact reviewer is expected to complet a form detailing changes that have been made to the review, and any disagreements they have with the referrees'/editor's suggestions.

The contact editor will have the final decision as to which of the referees comments need to be addressed in the event of disagreement between referees or referee and reviewer.

All referees will be asked to declare any potential conflict

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