PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews

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PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews

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Background: Literature searches underlie the foundations of systematic reviews and related review types. Yet, the literature searching component of systematic reviews and related review types is often poorly reported. Guidance for literature search reporting has been diverse, and, in many cases, does not offer enough detail to authors who need more specific information about reporting search methods and information sources in a clear, reproducible way. This document presents the PRISMA-S (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses literature search extension) checklist, and explanation and elaboration. Methods: The checklist was developed using a 3-stage Delphi survey process, followed by a consensus conference and public review process. Results: The final checklist includes 16 reporting items, each of which is detailed with exemplar reporting and rationale. Conclusions: The intent of PRISMA-S is to complement the PRISMA Statement and its extensions by providing a checklist that could be used by interdisciplinary authors, editors, and peer reviewers to verify that each component of a search is completely reported and therefore reproducible.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	39
Journal	Systematic reviews
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01542-z
State	Published - Dec 2021

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Funding Information:
We would like to thank all of the members of the PRISMA-S Group, which is comprised of participants in the Delphi process, consensus conference, or both. PRISMA-S Group members include Heather Blunt (Dartmouth College), Tara Brigham (Mayo Clinic in Florida), Steven Chang (La Trobe University), Justin Clark (Bond University), Aislinn Conway (BORN Ontario and CHEO Research Institute), Rachel Couban (McMaster University), Shelley de Kock (Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd), Kelly Farrah (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)), Paul Fehrmann (Kent State University), Margaret Foster (Texas A & M University), Susan A. Fowler (Washington University in St. Louis), Julie Glanville (University of York), Elizabeth Harris (La Trobe University), Lilian Hoffecker (University of Colorado Denver), Jaana Isojarvi (Tampere University), David Kaunelis (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)), Hans Ket (VU Amsterdam), Paul Levay (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)), Jennifer Lyon, Jessie McGowan (uOttawa), M. Hassan Murad (Mayo Clinic), Joey Nicholson (NYU Langone Health), Virginia Pannabecker (Virginia Tech), Robin Paynter (VA Portland Health Care System), Rachel Pinotti (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Amanda Ross-White (Queens University), Margaret Sampson (CHEO), Tracy Shields (Naval Medical Center Portsmouth), Adrienne Stevens (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute), Anthea Sutton (University of Sheffield), Elizabeth Weinfurter (University of Minnesota), Kath Wright (University of York), and Sarah Young (Carnegie Mellon University). We would also like to thank Kate Nyhan (Yale University), Katharina Gronostay (IQWiG), the many others who contributed to the PRISMA-S project anonymously or as draft reviewers, and our peer reviewers. We would like to give special thanks to the late Douglas G. Altman (D.G.A.; University of Oxford) for his support and guidance, and the co-chairs of the Medical Library Association’s Systematic Reviews SIG in 2016, Margaret Foster (Texas A & M University) and Susan Fowler (Washington University in St. Louis), for allowing us to use one of their meeting times for the consensus conference.

Funding Information:
David Moher is supported by a University Research Chair, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Funding Information:
Matthew Page is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE200101618).

Funding Information:
Shona Kirtley was funded by the Cancer Research UK (grant C49297/A27294). The funder had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Cancer Research UK.

Funding Information:
Melissa Rethlefsen was funded in part by the University of Utah’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science under the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health Award Number UL1TR002538 in 2017–2018 . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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© 2021, The Author(s).

Keywords

Information retrieval
Literature search
Reporting guidelines
Reproducibility
Search strategies
Systematic reviews

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