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HSLS Systematic Review Program

Designing and Conducting a Systematic Review

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2011. Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.4 (updated June 2023). Cochrane, 2023.

Reporting a Systematic Review

How to Properly Use the PRISMA Statement

Page MJ, et al. The PRISMA 2020 Statement: an Updated Guideline for Reporting Systematic Reviews. BMJ 2021;372:n71 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71.

Page MJ, et al. PRISMA 2020 Explanation and Elaboration: Updated Guidance and Exemplars for Reporting Systematic Reviews. BMJ 2021;372:n160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n160.
 
Beller EM, et al. PRISMA for Abstracts: Reporting Systematic Reviews in Journal and Conference Abstracts. PLoS Med. 2013;10(4):e1001419. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001419.
 
Rethlefsen ML, et al. PRISMA-S: an Extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews. Syst Rev. 2021 Jan 26;10(1):39. doi: 10.1186/s13643-020-01542-z.
 
Rethlefsen ML, Page MJ. PRISMA 2020 and PRISMA-S: common questions on tracking records and the flow diagram. J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Apr 1;110(2):253-257. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2022.1449.
 
Campbell M, et al. Synthesis Without Meta-analysis (SWiM) in Systematic Reviews: Reporting Guideline. BMJ. 2020 Jan 16;368:l6890. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l6890.
 
 

Additional guidance may be found by searching the PRISMA website or the EQUATOR Network.

Reporting Other Types of Review

Tricco AC, et al. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Oct 2;169(7):467-473. doi: 10.7326/M18-0850. Epub 2018 Sep 4. PMID: 30178033.
 
Pollock D, et al. Recommendations for the Extraction, Analysis, and Presentation of Results in Scoping Reviews. JBI Evid Synth. 2023 Mar 1; 21(3): 520-532. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00123. PMID: 36081365.
 
JBI has several useful short videos on data extraction and reporting of results in scoping reviews:
Additional topic-specific reporting standards can be found on the PRISMA Extensions page.

Critical Appraisal

A List of Critical Appraisal Tools

DistillerSR Critical Appraisal Tool Templates

McGowan J, Sampson M, Salzwedel DM, Cogo E, Foerster V, Lefebvre C. PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Statement. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016 Jul;75:40-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.01.021. Epub 2016 Mar 19.

Shea BJ, et al. AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both. BMJ. 2017 Sep 21;358:j4008. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4008.