What to include in your systematic review or meta-analyses report? PRISMA has an updated checklist

What to Include in your systematic review or meta-analyses report? PRISMA has an updated checklist

 

 

By Aaron Tay, Lead, Data Services

Doing a systematic review or meta-analysis?

Besides standards like the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, another important standard is the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) statement. First released in 2009, this statement provides a minimum set of information that you may want to include in your systematic review or meta-analysis report.

The new PRISMA 2020 statement was published in March 2021. This statement includes a 27-item checklist addressing the introduction, methods, results and discussion sections of a systematic review report as well as an updated flow diagram showing the flow of information through the different phrases of the systematic review.

 

Screenshot of PRISMA 2020 checklist flow chart

For more information or support contact library [at] smu.edu.sg (SMU Libraries).

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