BMJ, pages n71

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

Matt Page ¹

Joanne E Mckenzie ¹

Patrick M Bossuyt ²

Isabelle Boutron ³

Tammy C Hoffmann ⁴

Cynthia D. Mulrow ⁵

Larissa Shamseer ⁶

Jennifer M Tetzlaff ⁷

Elie A Akl ⁸

Sue E. Brennan ¹

Roger Chou ⁹

Julie Glanville ¹⁰

Jeremy M. Grimshaw ¹¹

Asbjørn Hróbjartsson ¹²

Manoj M. Lalu ¹³

Tianjing Li ¹⁴

Elizabeth W Loder ¹⁵

Evan Mayo-Wilson ¹⁶

Steve Mcdonald ¹

Luke A. McGuinness ¹⁷

Lesley A Stewart ¹⁸

James Thomas ¹⁹

Andrea C. Tricco ²⁰

Vivian A Welch ²¹

Penny Whiting ¹⁷

David Moher ²²

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School of Public health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |

Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam University Medical Center

University of Amsterdam

Université de Paris, Centre of Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Inserm, F Paris, France |

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Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia |

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University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA; Annals of Internal Medicine |

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Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada |

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Evidence Partners, Ottawa, Canada |

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Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |

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Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA |

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York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC Ltd), University of York, York, UK |

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Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

University of Ottawa

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

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Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense (CEBMO) and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Open Patient data Exploratory Network (OPEN), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

University of Southern Denmark

Odense University Hospital

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Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Blueprint Translational Research Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada |

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Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Johns Hopkins University

University of Colorado Denver

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Division of Headache, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Head of Research, The BMJ, London, UK |

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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |

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Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University Of Bristol, Bristol, UK |

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Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK |

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EPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, London, UK |

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Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Epidemiology Division of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Management, Policy, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada |

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Methods Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada |

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Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

University of Ottawa

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2021-03-29

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ISSN: 09598146, 17561833, 09598138, 14685833, 00071447

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n71

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Abstract

The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement, published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did, and what they found. Over the past decade, advances in systematic review methodology and terminology have necessitated an update to the guideline. The PRISMA 2020 statement replaces the 2009 statement and includes new reporting guidance that reflects advances in methods to identify, select, appraise, and synthesise studies. The structure and presentation of the items have been modified to facilitate implementation. In this article, we present the PRISMA 2020 27-item checklist, an expanded checklist that details reporting recommendations for each item, the PRISMA 2020 abstract checklist, and the revised flow diagrams for original and updated reviews.

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Page M. et al. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews // BMJ. 2021. p. n71.

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Page M., Mckenzie J. E., Bossuyt P. M., Boutron I., Hoffmann T. C., Mulrow C. D., Shamseer L., Tetzlaff J. M., Akl E. A., Brennan S. E., Chou R., Glanville J., Grimshaw J. M., Hróbjartsson A., Lalu M. M., Li T., Loder E. W., Mayo-Wilson E., Mcdonald S., McGuinness L. A., Stewart L. A., Thomas J., Tricco A. C., Welch V. A., Whiting P., Moher D. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews // BMJ. 2021. p. n71.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1136/bmj.n71

UR - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71

TI - The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

T2 - BMJ

AU - Page, Matt

AU - Mckenzie, Joanne E

AU - Bossuyt, Patrick M

AU - Boutron, Isabelle

AU - Hoffmann, Tammy C

AU - Mulrow, Cynthia D.

AU - Shamseer, Larissa

AU - Tetzlaff, Jennifer M

AU - Akl, Elie A

AU - Brennan, Sue E.

AU - Chou, Roger

AU - Glanville, Julie

AU - Grimshaw, Jeremy M.

AU - Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn

AU - Lalu, Manoj M.

AU - Li, Tianjing

AU - Loder, Elizabeth W

AU - Mayo-Wilson, Evan

AU - Mcdonald, Steve

AU - McGuinness, Luke A.

AU - Stewart, Lesley A

AU - Thomas, James

AU - Tricco, Andrea C.

AU - Welch, Vivian A

AU - Whiting, Penny

AU - Moher, David

PY - 2021

DA - 2021/03/29

PB - BMJ

SP - n71

SN - 0959-8146

SN - 1756-1833

SN - 0959-8138

SN - 1468-5833

SN - 0007-1447

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@article{2021_Page,

author = {Matt Page and Joanne E Mckenzie and Patrick M Bossuyt and Isabelle Boutron and Tammy C Hoffmann and Cynthia D. Mulrow and Larissa Shamseer and Jennifer M Tetzlaff and Elie A Akl and Sue E. Brennan and Roger Chou and Julie Glanville and Jeremy M. Grimshaw and Asbjørn Hróbjartsson and Manoj M. Lalu and Tianjing Li and Elizabeth W Loder and Evan Mayo-Wilson and Steve Mcdonald and Luke A. McGuinness and Lesley A Stewart and James Thomas and Andrea C. Tricco and Vivian A Welch and Penny Whiting and David Moher},

title = {The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews},

journal = {BMJ},

year = {2021},

publisher = {BMJ},

month = {mar},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71},

pages = {n71},

doi = {10.1136/bmj.n71}

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BMJ

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BMJ

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR

2.803

CiteScore

19.9

Impact factor

93.6

ISSN

09598146 (Print)

17561833 (Electronic)

09598138 (Print)

14685833 (Electronic)

00071447 (Print)