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The PRISMA flow diagram, depicting the flow of information through the different phases of a systematic review. PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) is an evidence-based minimum set of items aimed at helping scientific authors to report a wide array of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, primarily used to assess the benefits and harms of a health care ...
In the standard preregistration format, researchers prepare a research protocol document prior to conducting their research. Ideally, this document indicates the research hypotheses, sampling procedure, sample size, research design, testing conditions, stimuli, measures, data coding and aggregation method, criteria for data exclusions, and statistical analyses, including potential variations ...
Quality tools include: [1] Medical guidelines, including checklists [2] (items rated as yes/no/not applicable); Templates [3] for goal setting or structured communication (a more open format than checklists, templates provide the opportunity to add free text responses with items as prompts)
If you use this template and populate it with info pulled from Wikidata, it will not format the author list in a way compatible with {{{vauthors}}}. Rather than have each use of the template raise an error, this template uses the {{{authors}}} instead. Unfortunately, the use of this parameter is discouraged because it does not contribute to a ...
The Cochrane Library (named after Archie Cochrane) is a collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by Cochrane and other organizations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses that summarize and interpret the results of medical research.
A systematic review is a scholarly synthesis of the evidence on a clearly presented topic using critical methods to identify, define and assess research on the topic. [1] A systematic review extracts and interprets data from published studies on the topic (in the scientific literature), then analyzes, describes, critically appraises and summarizes interpretations into a refined evidence-based ...
Systematic Reviews is an online-only open access peer-reviewed medical journal published by BioMed Central that focuses on systematic reviews.Articles are either about specific systematic reviews, reporting their protocols, methodologies, findings, follow-up, etc., or else they are about such reviews as a class, discussing the science of systematic reviews.
Academics and other experts are invited to contribute a peer-reviewed review article to the journal, and must create a corresponding Wikipedia version of that review article. Although the content should be similar, the peer-reviewed article and the corresponding Wikipedia article are textually different in order to ensure accessibility of the ...