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

Matthew J Page; Joanne E McKenzie; Patrick M Bossuyt; Isabelle Boutron; Tammy C Hoffmann; Cynthia D Mulrow; Larissa Shamseer; Jennifer M Tetzlaff; Elie A Akl; Sue E Brennan; Roger Chou; Julie Glanville; Jeremy M Grimshaw; Asbjørn Hróbjartsson; Manoj M Lalu; Tianjing Li; Elizabeth W Loder; Evan Mayo-Wilson; Steve McDonald; Luke A McGuinness; Lesley A Stewart; James Thomas; Andrea C Tricco; Vivian A Welch; Penny Whiting; David Moher

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003583

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

PLoS Med. 2021 Mar 29;18(3):e1003583. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003583. eCollection 2021 Mar.

Authors

Matthew J Page¹, Joanne E McKenzie¹, Patrick M Bossuyt², Isabelle Boutron³, Tammy C Hoffmann⁴, Cynthia D Mulrow⁵, Larissa Shamseer⁶, Jennifer M Tetzlaff⁷, Elie A Akl⁸, Sue E Brennan¹, Roger Chou⁹, Julie Glanville¹⁰, Jeremy M Grimshaw¹¹, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson¹², Manoj M Lalu¹³, Tianjing Li¹⁴, Elizabeth W Loder¹⁵, Evan Mayo-Wilson¹⁶, Steve McDonald¹, Luke A McGuinness¹⁷, Lesley A Stewart¹⁸, James Thomas¹⁹, Andrea C Tricco²⁰, Vivian A Welch²¹, Penny Whiting¹⁷, David Moher²²

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
³ Université de Paris, Centre of Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Inserm, Paris, France.
⁴ Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
⁵ University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America; Annals of Internal Medicine.
⁶ Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
⁷ Evidence Partners, Ottawa, Canada.
⁸ Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
¹⁰ York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC Ltd), University of York, York, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
¹² Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense (CEBMO) and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Open Patient data Exploratory Network (OPEN), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
¹³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Blueprint Translational Research Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
¹⁵ Division of Headache, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Head of Research, The BMJ, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America.
¹⁷ Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
¹⁸ Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
¹⁹ EPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
²⁰ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Epidemiology Division of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Management, Policy, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
²¹ Methods Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
²² Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Abstract

Matthew Page and co-authors describe PRISMA 2020, an updated reporting guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Publication types

Guideline
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Evidence-Based Medicine / standards*
Humans
Publishing / standards*
Systematic Reviews as Topic* / methods
Systematic Reviews as Topic* / standards

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding