standards-and-guidelines.md

Process Guidance

Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Collaboration's tools and resources will guide your systematic review whether or not it is a Cochrane Review.

• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
• Methodological Expectatiosn of Cochrane Intervention Reviews
• Cochrane Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews: in development

Institute of Medicine, National Academies

• Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews

Joanna Briggs Institute

JBI is an 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. Learn about the JBI approach to evidence-based healthcare. The Reviewer's Manual provides guidance ofr all types of systematic and other expert reviews.

• JBI Reviewer's Manual

Reporting

Various Guidelines

• Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards (RAMESES)
• Reporting Standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses in Environmental Research (ROSES)
• Structured Approach to the Reporting in Healthcare Education of Evidence Synthesis (STORIES)

The PRISMA Statement

PRISMA stands for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. PRISMA has several extensions, including extensions for protocols, individual patient data, network meta-analyses, and more.

• PRISMA Statement
• PRISMA Explanation and Elaboration
• PRISMA Checklist
• PRISMA FLow Diagram
• PRISMA Extensions