The PRISMA-IPD checklist has 31 items. See each one applied to a real open-access IPD meta-analysis, with section pointers, judgement calls and a free workflow.
PRISMA-NMA Checklist: 32 Items With a Worked Example
The PRISMA-NMA checklist is the reporting standard that journals expect when a systematic review includes a network meta-analysis. Hutton and colleagues published it in 2015 as an extension to the original PRISMA statement, and it runs to 32 items [1]. Twenty-seven of them are the familiar PRISMA items with wording adapted to networks of treatments, and five are new items about the geometry of the…
PRISMA-DTA Checklist: All 27 Items Applied to a Real Open-Access DTA Review
Apply the PRISMA-DTA checklist item by item to a real open-access DTA review. See all 27 items, where each answer sits, and the gaps to fix before submission.
AMSTAR 2: How to Use the 16 Items, 7 Critical Domains and Confidence Ratings
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How to Write a Literature Review: Choose the Type, Build a Synthesis Matrix, Write by Theme
A literature review is not a pile of paper summaries. It is a reasoned account of what is already known on a topic, where the evidence agrees, where it clashes, and what is still missing. Most weak reviews go wrong before the first search, because the author never decided which kind of review to write. A well-known analysis of review methods found 14 distinct review…