How The People's Review will work.
Everything takes place online.
Who can get involved?
The People's Review is open to anyone, anywhere in the world as long as you have access to the internet (laptop, phone, tablet etc.) and can speak English. You don't need any special skills or training to get involved.
Sign-up Survey
Before joining for the first time please complete the 'Consent Form & Pre-Review Survey' which includes questions about your knowledge and views about health information and systematic reviews.
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This will only take about 5 minutes, and you will only have to complete this the first time you join The People's Review.
Login to Cochrane Crowd
Once you complete the sign-up survey, you will be directed to another website Cochrane Crowd. ​
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You will need to sign-up and login to Cochrane Crowd. It usually takes about 5 minutes to sign-up.
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Once you've logged in you'll be able to get stuck in to the stage that is open at the moment.
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Stage 1: Suggest a Question is open now on Cochrane Crowd.
2: Choose the Question
From your suggestions, we will get a list of great questions. However, The People's Review can only answer one question and YOU will choose it. We will ask you to vote for your favourite question in two rounds of surveys.
3: Plan the Review
We want to hear from you about how to answer the People's favourite question.
4: Select the Studies
To make sure that we have included all possible studies, we have to search wide and far. We will need your help to sift through studies to decide whether YOU think they answer the People's favourite question or not.
5: Extract the Data
Once we have our studies to include in our review. The next step is to take a closer look at them and pull out all the important information.
6: Check for Bias
Now we need to take an even closer look at the studies. This involves checking if there are any flaws (also called bias) in how the studies were done. This helps us know if we can trust the evidence.
7: Interpret the Results
We will pool all the data together and run some tests. We will then need your help to make sense of the review findings.
8: Share the Results
In the final stage we will ask you how the results of the review should be shared.
The Review & Follow up
We will use all the information from the previous eight stages to right up our findings in a report. We will publish this report in an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, so everyone can view and access The People's Review.
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We will also ask you to complete a short 'Post-Review Survey' to see what you learned and to give you the opportunity to share your thoughts about The People's Review process.
