Guides: Evidence Synthesis: Protocols & Registries

Common Reporting Standards

Standards can be used both to make sure that your review meets requirements and to assess the quality of the studies you report on. More reporting standards available at the Equator Network

Reporting Standards	Type of Studies
AGREE Reporting Checklist Appraisal of Guidelines, Research and Evaluation Reporting Checklist	Clinical Practice
ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0 Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments	Animal Pre-Clinical Studies
CARE Guidelines CAse REport Guidelines	Case Studies
CHEERS Statement Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards	Economic evaluations
CONSORT Statement Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials	Randomized Trials, Clinical Trials, Experimental Studies
eMERGe Project Meta-ethnography Reporting Guidance	Meta Ethnography Studies
ENTREQ Statement Enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research	Qualitative Research
MOOSE Statement Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies in Epidemiology	Observational Studies, Public Health, Epidemiology
PRISMA Statement (formerly QUOROM) Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses	Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses
PRISMA-P Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols	Systematic Review and Meta Analyses Protocols
RAMESES Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards	Meta-Narrative Reviews, Realist Synthesis
SPIRIT Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials	Clinical Trial and Experimental Study Protocols
SQUIRE 2.0 Standards Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence	Quality Improvement Studies
SRQR Standards for reporting qualitative research	Qualitative Research
STARD Statement Standards for Reporting Studies of of Diagnostic Accuracy	Clinical Trials, Diagnostic and Prognostic Studies, Experimental Studies, Observational Studies
STARLITE Statement Sampling stratagy, type of study, approaches, range of years, limits, inclusion and exclusion, terms used, electronic sources	Literature Searches
STREGA STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies	Genetic Association Studies
STROBE Statement STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology	Observational studies in epidemiology (cohort, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies)

Adapted from Booth, A. (2016). Systematic approaches to a successful literature review (Second edition.). Sage.
and EQUATOR Network

Protocol Registries

Protocol - describes "the rationale, objectives, and methods that will be used in the systematic review." (Cochrane Reviews definition)

Protocol and Systematic Review Registries

Registering your protocol makes it accessible to the public. Others can avoid duplicating your review; likewise, you can check whether your planned review has already been conducted.

PROSPERO
is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care, welfare, public health, education, crime, justice, and international development, where there is a health related outcome.
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Key features from the review protocol are recorded and maintained as a permanent record. PROSPERO aims to provide a comprehensive listing of systematic reviews registered at inception to help avoid duplication and reduce opportunity for reporting bias by enabling comparison completed review with what was planned in the protocol.
SYREAF
Systematic Reviews for Animals & Food includes protocol registry, publications and video tutorials
Collaboration for Environmental Evidence
Provides guidelines and standards for those conducting CEE Evidence Syntheses including protocol registration
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
A resource for systematic reviews in health care.
JBI Systematic Review Registry
Register titles of reviews currently underway.
Open Science Framework Prergistration
The Open Science Framework is a free and open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project life cycle. It offers preregistration - you can specify your research plan in advance of your study and submit to a registry
Research Registry
The Research Registry offers registration for all types of research studies, from case reports to observational/interventional studies to systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Review Protocol Template

Evidence Synthesis

Common Reporting Standards

Protocol Registries

Protocol and Systematic Review Registries

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