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

摘要

Building on the PRISMA (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses) guidelines, an international group of experts has created a guideline to improve the transparency, accuracy, completeness, and frequency of reporting of systematic review and meta-analysis protocols—PRISMA-P (for protocols) 2015. The PRISMA-P checklist (table) contains 17 items considered to be essential and minimum components of a systematic review or meta-analysis protocol.