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GuidelinePLoS medicine2013

PRISMA for Abstracts: reporting systematic reviews in journal and conference abstracts.

Elaine M Beller, Paul P Glasziou, Douglas G Altman, Sally Hopewell, Hilda Bastian, Iain Chalmers, Peter C Gøtzsche, Toby Lasserson, David Tovey, PRISMA for Abstracts Group

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In one paragraph

Guideline in PLoS medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 256 papers, 95 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
256citing papers in PubMed, 95 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

256 citing papers in PubMed, 95 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Interventions to improve Cultural Safety in healthcare in CANZUS countries: a systematic mixed studies review of First Nations Peoples' experiences.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2026
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  3. Prevalence of molar-incisor hypomineralisation (MIH) in children in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2026
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  13. Do clinical caries-preventive interventions applied to expectant mothers affect caries-related parameters in their children? A systematic review.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2025
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196 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Elaine M BellerCentre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia. ebeller@bond.edu.au
Paul P Glasziou
Douglas G Altman
Sally Hopewell
Hilda Bastian
Iain Chalmers
Peter C Gøtzsche
Toby Lasserson
David Tovey
PRISMA for Abstracts Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Elaine Beller and colleagues from the PRISMA for Abstracts group provide a reporting guidelines for reporting abstracts of systematic reviews in journals and at conferences.

Indexed as

Review Literature as TopicAbstracting and IndexingCongresses as TopicEvidence-Based MedicineHumansPeriodicals as Topic

Identifiers

PMID23585737
PMCPMC3621753

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.