PROSPERO (international prospective register of systematic reviews)
- Useful resource to be aware of before formulating a protocol for a systematic review involving one or more health-related outcomes
- Avoids wastage in duplication of efforts.
- Use this register to confirm your planned or existing systematic review has not already been proposed and to register your own protocol for a systematic review.
- Current scope of reviews covered by PROSPERO
SUPPORT ON THE VARIOUS STEPS IN CONDUCTING A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, INCLUDING DATA EXTRACTION
The link at the above header will direct you to the Cochrance Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Resources. These include a section on Data Extraction. In addition to the publication date, author name(s) and effect size estimate (e.g. odds ratio or difference in means), you should be recording the sample and group sizes, the confidence interval, and the p-value. Please consult the above section for more comprehensive advice.
JARS (Journal Article Reporting Guidelines), Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS), and Flow of Participants Through Each Stage of an Experiment or Quasi-Experiment – covers material not covered by CONSORT or its extensions ; contains recommendations of particular relevance to psychological research
MOOSE: Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guidelines
Reference: Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group (Stroup et al., 2000)
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
The PRISMA statement replaces QUOROM (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) statement): cf. Moher et al., 1999.
Review production resources for Cochrane Review Authors & Managing Editors
The Cochrane collaboration also provide reporting guidelines, including an “official style guide” at the above site. In addition, in collaboration with the Methods, Applications and Review Standards Working Group, the Cochrane Editorial Board provide the resource Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR), which includes links to documents intended to supplement those at the previous link. The coverage of the supplementary documents includes “new reviews of interventions” and “plain language summaries” of such reviews.
More help can be found by referring to Step 8: Presenting the results (writing the report) of the resource ‘Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: a step-by-step guide’.
Systematic reviews, including meta-analyses: reporting guidelines by Margaret MacDougall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
