References and resources

PROSPERO - Guidance notes for registering a systematic review

 

Download the field by field guidance notes for registering a systematic review on PROSPERO.

Systematic review methods

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. Systematic reviews: CRD's guidance for undertaking reviews in health care. York: University of York; 2009. Available from: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/index_guidance.htm

Higgins JPT, Green S, editors. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Version 5.0.2 [updated September 2009]: The Cochrane Collaboration; 2009. Available from: www.cochrane-handbook.org

Jackson N, Waters E and for the Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in Health Promotion and Public Health Taskforce. Criteria for the systematic review of health promotion and public health interventions. Health Promot. Int. 2005; 20(4): 367-374

The Joanna Briggs Institute. Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewers’ Manual. The Joanna Briggs Institute. 2008 Ed. ISBN: 978-1-920684-04-4 Available from: www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pdf/JBIReviewManual_CiP11449.pdf

Petticrew M, Roberts H. Systematic reviews in the social sciences: a practical guide. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing; 2006.

Reporting systematic reviews

PRISMA Statement website http://www.prisma-statement.org/index.htm

Altman DG. Systematic reviews of evaluations of prognostic variables. BMJ 2001; 323: 224-228.

Leeflang MM, Deeks JJ, Gatsonis C, Bossuyt PM. Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group. Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy. Annals of Internal Medicine 2008; 149: 889-897.

Liberati A, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Mulrow C, Gøtzsche PC, et al. (2009) The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration. PLoS Med 6(7): e1000100. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000100

Moher D, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG, for the PRISMA Group. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Med 2009;339:b2535

Sagoo GS, Little J, Higgins JPT. Systematic reviews of genetic association studies. PLoS Medicine 2009; 6(3): e1000028.

Registering systematic reviews

Booth A, Clarke M, Dooley G, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. PROSPERO at one year: an evaluation of its utility. Systematic Reviews 2013;2:4

Booth A, Clarke M, Dooley G, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. The nuts and bolts of PROSPERO: an international prospective register of systematic reviews. Systematic Reviews 2012; 1:2

Booth A, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. Establishing a Minimum Dataset for Prospective Registration of Systematic Reviews: An International Consultation. PLoS ONE 2011; 6(11): e27319.

Booth A, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. An international registry of systematic-review protocolsLancet 2011;377(9760):108-109

Chang SM, Slutsky J. Debunking myths of protocol registrationSystematic Reviews 2012; 1:4

Chien PFW, Khan KS, Siassakos D. Registration of systematic reviews: PROSPEROBJOG. 2012 Jul;119(8):903-5

Davies S. The importance of PROSPERO to the National Institute for Health ResearchSystematic Reviews 2012; 1:5

Graham ID. Knowledge synthesis and the Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchSystematic Reviews 2012; 1:6 

Kirkham JJ, Altman DG, Williamson PR. Bias due to changes in specified outcomes during the systematic review process. PLoS ONE 2010;5: e9810

Silagy CA, Middleton P, Hopewell S. Publishing protocols of systematic reviews: comparing what was done to what was planned. JAMA 2002;287:2831-4

Stewart L, Moher D, Shekelle P. Why prospective registration of systematic reviews makes senseSystematic Reviews 2012; 1:7 

Straus S, Moher D. Registering systematic reviews. CMAJ. 2010; 182(1):13-14

Tricco AC, Pham B, Brehaut J, Tetroe J, Cappelli M, Hopewell S, Lavis JN, Berlin JA, and Moher D. An international survey indicated that unpublished systematic reviews existJournal of clinical epidemiology 2009: 62(6):617-623.e5

Van der Wees P, Qaseem A, Kaila M, Ollenschlaeger G, Rosenfeld R, Board of Trustees of the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N).  Prospective systematic review registration: Perspective from the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N).   Systematic Reviews 2012; 1:3

Yang ZR, Zhan SY. [PROSPERO: the new register of non-Cochrane reviews]. Zhong Hua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2012; 92 (6): 422-5.

News and events

Marking the first year

Celebrating PROSPERO's first year

A guest blog by Alison Booth on the BMJ Group website

PROSPERO, looking good one year on

PROSPERO, the first open access online facility to prospectively register systematic reviews reports a successful first year with researchers from 27 countries around the world registering reviews.

Launch

Dame Sally Davies on the launch of PROSPERO http://www.youtube.com/NIHRtv#p/u/2/2cJ86hQH3Uk

Registering Systematic Review Protocols: An international initiative Presentations from the meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, 18 February 2011 http://www.kscanada.ca/rsrp2011.html

Best Practice in Systematic Reviews: The Importance of Protocols and Registration PLoS Medicine editorial PLoS Med. 2011 Feb;8(2):e1001009. Epub 2011 Feb 22.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001009

New initiative to make systematic review protocols more transparent BMJ 2011; 342:d1240
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1240.full?sid=d64d225c-a7ab-479e-8eb1-d9c4cec85957

UK bid to boost global transparency of health research Pharmatimes article http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/11-02-24/UK_bid_to_boost_global_transparency_of_health_research.aspx

Glossaries

The Cochrane Collaboration Glossary:
http://www.cochrane.org/glossary/5

International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) Glossary: http://www.who.int/ictrp/glossary/en/index.html

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