LibGuides: Systematic Reviews: Handbooks and Standards

Handbooks and Standards

"A reporting guideline is a simple, structured tool for health researchers to use while writing manuscripts. A reporting guideline provides a minimum list of information needed to ensure a manuscript can be, for example:

Understood by a reader,
Replicated by a researcher,
Used by a doctor to make a clinical decision, and
Included in a systematic review.

Whether presented as structured text or a checklist, a reporting guideline:

presents a clear list of reporting items that should appear in a paper and
explains how the list was developed." (Equator Network, n.d.)

What is a reporting guideline? (n.d.). EQUATOR Network. Retrieved June 28, 2023, from https://www.equator-network.org/about-us/what-is-a-reporting-guideline/

PRISMA Statement
The PRISMA 2020 Statement was published in 2021. It consists of a checklist and a flow diagram, and is intended to be accompanied by the PRISMA 2020 Explanation and Elaboration document.
PRISMA Checklist
The PRISMA 2020 statement comprises a 27-item checklist addressing the introduction, methods, results and discussion sections of a systematic review report.
PRISMA Flow Diagram
The flow diagram depicts the flow of information through the different phases of a systematic review. It maps out the number of records identified, included and excluded, and the reasons for exclusions. Different templates are available depending on the type of review (new or updated) and sources used to identify studies.

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
Cochrane is a global network of health and social care practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, with a mission to promote evidence-informed decision making by producing high quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence
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It is a not-for-profit organization whose members aim to produce credible information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest.

Cochrane works collaboratively with health professionals, policy makers and international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the development of evidence-informed guidelines and policy. Cochrane Reviews underpin many of these guidelines; for example, dozens of Cochrane Review were used as the evidence base for WHO guidelines on the critical public health issues of breastfeeding (WHO 2017) and malaria (WHO 2015), and for the WHO Essential Medicines List and Essential Diagnostics List.
JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis
JBI is an international evidence-based healthcare research organisation that works with 70+ Universities and Hospitals (known as the JBI Collaboration) around the world. The organisation focuses on improving health outcomes globally by producing and disseminating research evidence, software, training, resources and publications relating to evidence-based healthcare.
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Our major role is the translation of research evidence into practice. One of our strengths is in the conduct of systematic reviews that reflect a broad, inclusive approach to evidence and accommodate a range of diverse questions and study designs.

The JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis is designed to provide authors with a comprehensive guide to conducting JBI systematic reviews. It describes in detail the process of planning, undertaking and writing up a systematic review using JBI methods