Inclusion criteria

PROSPERO includes details of any planned or on-going systematic review that has a health related outcome.

PROSPERO accepts:

Systematic review protocols assessing:

• Interventions (Including qualitative and individual participant data reviews)
• Diagnostic accuracy
• Prognostic factors
• Prevention
• Epidemiological reviews relevant to health and social care
• Public health
• Service delivery in health and social care
• Methodological

Further information on protocol development specific to review types is accessible below.

Requirements for registration

• A full protocol should be ready before registering with PROSPERO
• Submissions must be made before data extraction commences (from October 2019)
• Registration forms must be complete.
• Submissions must be in English (search strategies and protocols attached to a record may be in any language).

PROSPERO does not accept:

• Systematic reviews without an outcome of clear relevance to the health of humans
• Scoping reviews
• Literature reviews that use a systematic search
• Systematic reviews assessing sports performance as an outcome
• Methodological reviews that assess ONLY the quality of reporting

Other considerations

• Cochrane protocols are automatically uploaded- To avoid duplication of records, Cochrane protocols should not be registered separately with PROSPERO.