| GROUP | PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| ES/SR Team | ✔ | |
| Librarian | Librarian assists in writing the search portion of the Methods section for publication. as part of the fee-based service |
Accuracy, comprehensiveness, and transparent reporting are essential since ES/SRs are used to make healthcare decisions. Adhering to reporting guidelines furthers this goal. The major reporting guideline for ES/SR and meta-analyses is Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, or PRISMA (Eden, 2011).
Chapter 5 - Standards for Reporting Systematic Reviews of Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews details three related standards for documenting the SR process, responding to input from peer reviewers and other users and stakeholders, and making the final report publicly available (Eden, 2011). While the standards are based on the PRISMA checklist, the IOM committee recommended several reporting items in addition to the PRISMA requirements to ensure that the final report:
For additional information, see guidelines specific to those ES/SR are listed at Evidence Synthesis – Guidelines and Resources. For questions regarding guidelines to an evidence synthesis not listed, contact the Library using the Ask Us form.
Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews (NCBI Bookshelf) by
Recommends standards for systematic reviews of the comparative effectiveness of medical or surgical interventions, and the standards are meant to assure objective, transparent, and scientifically valid systematic reviews. Addresses the entire systematic review process, from locating, screening, and selecting studies for the review, to synthesizing the findings (including meta-analysis) and assessing the overall quality of the body of evidence, to producing the final review report.