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PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA statement for reporting literature searches in Systematic Reviews
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Background
Literature searches underlie the foundations of systematic reviews and related review types. Yet, the literature searching component of systematic reviews and related review types is often poorly reported. Guidance for literature search reporting has been diverse, and, in many cases, does not offer enough detail to authors who need more specific information about reporting search methods and information sources in a clear, reproducible way. This document presents the PRISMA-S (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses literature search extension) checklist, and explanation and elaboration.
Methods The checklist was developed using a 3-stage Delphi survey process, followed by a consensus conference and public review process.
Results The final checklist includes 16 reporting items, each of which is detailed with exemplar reporting and rationale.
Conclusions The intent of PRISMA-S is to complement the PRISMA Statement and its extensions by providing a checklist that could be used by interdisciplinary authors, editors, and peer reviewers to verify that each component of a search is completely reported and therefore reproducible.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1186/s13643-020-01542-z
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- BioMed Central
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- Systematic Reviews More from this journal
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 39
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-23
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2046-4053
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2046-4053
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33499930
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English
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1159058
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pubs:1159058
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2021-02-02
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- Rethlefsen et al.
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- 2021
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