GuidelinePLoS medicine2021
The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews.
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Authors and funding
26 authors.
Matthew J PageSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4242-7526
Joanne E McKenzieSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3534-1641
Patrick M BossuytDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4427-0128
Isabelle BoutronUniversité de Paris, Centre of Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Inserm, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5263-6241
Tammy C HoffmannInstitute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5210-8548
Cynthia D MulrowUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America; Annals of Internal Medicine.
Larissa ShamseerKnowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3690-3378
Jennifer M TetzlaffEvidence Partners, Ottawa, Canada.
Elie A AklClinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3444-8618
Sue E BrennanSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1789-8809
Roger ChouDepartment of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
Julie GlanvilleYork Health Economics Consortium (YHEC Ltd), University of York, York, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1253-8524
Jeremy M GrimshawClinical 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.ORCID 0000-0001-8015-8243
Asbjørn HróbjartssonCentre 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.
Manoj M LaluDepartment 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.ORCID 0000-0002-0322-382X
Tianjing LiDepartment 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.
Elizabeth W LoderDivision of Headache, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Head of Research, The BMJ, London, United Kingdom.
Evan Mayo-WilsonDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6126-2459
Steve McDonaldSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2832-5205
Luke A McGuinnessPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8730-9761
Lesley A StewartCentre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0287-4724
James ThomasEPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4805-4190
Andrea C TriccoLi 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.ORCID 0000-0002-4114-8971
Vivian A WelchMethods Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5238-7097
Penny WhitingPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
David MoherCentre 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.ORCID 0000-0003-2434-4206
Funding
Maximizing Use of High-Quality Evidence in Eye Care: Cochrane Eyes and Vision US ProjectUG1EY020522 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Tianjing Li · 2017 to 2026
$10.1MDepartment of Health DRF-2018-11-ST2-048NEI NIH HHS UG1 EY020522
Abstract
Matthew Page and co-authors describe PRISMA 2020, an updated reporting guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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