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posted on 2025-01-30, 04:02 authored by Melissa L Rethlefsen, Shona Kirtley, Siw Waffenschmidt, Ana Patricia Ayala, David Moher, Matthew J Page, Jonathan B Koffel, Heather Blunt, Tara Brigham, Steven Chang, Justin Clark, Aislinn Conway, Rachel Couban, Shelley de Kock, Kelly Farrah, Paul Fehrmann, Margaret Foster, Susan A Fowler, Julie Glanville, Elizabeth Harris, Lilian Hoffecker, Jaana Isojarvi, David Kaunelis, Hans Ket, Paul Levay, Jennifer Lyon, Jessie McGowan, M Hassan Murad, Joey Nicholson, Virginia Pannabecker, Robin Paynter, Rachel Pinotti, Amanda Ross-White, Margaret Sampson, Tracy Shields, Adrienne Stevens, Anthea Sutton, Elizabeth Weinfurter, Kath Wright, Sarah Young 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.
Funding
Melissa Rethlefsen was funded in part by the University of Utah's Center for Clinical and Translational Science under the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health Award Number UL1TR002538 in 2017-2018. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.Shona Kirtley was funded by the Cancer Research UK (grant C49297/A27294). The funder had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Cancer Research UK.Matthew Page is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE200101618). David Moher is supported by a University Research Chair, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.The consensus conference was sponsored by the Systematic Reviews SIG of the Medical Library Association. There was no specific funding associated with this event.
History
Publication Date
2021-01-26Journal
Systematic ReviewsVolume
10Article Number
39Pagination
19p.Publisher
BMCISSN
2046-4053Rights Statement
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