Contributions of authors
[fixed, level 1 heading]
The contributions of the current co-authors to the protocol or review should be described in this section. One author should be identified as the guarantor of the review. All authors should discuss and agree on their respective descriptions of contribution before the review is submitted for publication on the CDSR. When the review is updated, this section should be checked and revised as necessary to ensure that it is accurate and up to date.
The following potential contributions have been adapted from Yank et al. (Yank 1999). This is a suggested scheme and the section should describe what people did, rather than attempt to identify which of these categories someone’s contribution falls within. Ideally, the authors should describe their contribution in their own words.
Conceiving the review.
Designing the review.
Coordinating the review.
Data collection for the review.
Designing search strategies.
Undertaking searches.
Screening search results.
Organizing retrieval of papers.
Screening retrieved papers against eligibility criteria.
Appraising quality of papers.
Extracting data from papers.
Writing to authors of papers for additional information.
Providing additional data about papers.
Obtaining and screening data on unpublished studies.
Data management for the review.
Entering data into RevMan.
Analysis of data.
Interpretation of data.
Providing a methodological perspective.
Providing a clinical perspective.
Providing a policy perspective.
Providing a consumer perspective.
Writing the review (or protocol).
Providing general advice on the review.
Securing funding for the review.
Performing previous work that was the foundation of the current review.