David Moher

Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement

2015 · Systematic Reviews

Systematic reviews should build on a protocol that describes the rationale, hypothesis, and planned methods of the review; few reviews report whether a protocol exists. Detailed, well-described protocols can facilitate the understanding and appraisal of …

Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015: elaboration and explanation

2015 · BMJ

Protocols of systematic reviews and meta-analyses allow for planning and documentation of review methods, act as a guard against arbitrary decision making during review conduct, enable readers to assess for the presence of selective reporting …

PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews

2021 · BMJ

The PRISMA 2020 statement includes a checklist of 27 items to guide reporting of systematic reviews In this article we explain why reporting of each item is recommended, present bullet points that detail the reporting …

AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both

2017 · BMJ

The number of published systematic reviews of studies of healthcare interventions has increased rapidly and these are used extensively for clinical and policy decisions. Systematic reviews are subject to a range of biases and increasingly …

The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Statement

2015 · PLoS Medicine

Routinely collected health data, obtained for administrative and clinical purposes without specific a priori research goals, are increasingly used for research. The rapid evolution and availability of these data have revealed issues not addressed by …

STARD 2015: an updated list of essential items for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies

2015 · BMJ

Incomplete reporting has been identified as a major source of avoidable waste in biomedical research. Essential information is often not provided in study reports, impeding the identification, critical appraisal, and replication of studies. To improve …

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

2021 · BMJ

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. …

Making Science Transparent By Default; Introducing the TOP Statement

2018

In order to increase the replicability of scientific work, the scientific community has called for practices designed to increase the transparency of research (McNutt, 2014; Nosek et al., 2015). The validity of a scientific claim …