Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Syst Rev. 2023 Oct 13;12(1):196. doi: 10.1186/s13643-023-02363-6.
Incomplete reporting about what systematic reviewers did and what they found prevents users of the report from being able to fully interpret the findings and understand the limitations of the underlying evidence. Reporting guidelines such as the PRISMA statement and its extensions are designed to improve reporting. However, there are important inconsistencies across the various PRISMA reporting guidelines, which causes confusion and misinterpretation. Coupled with this, users might need to consult multiple guidelines to gain a full understanding of the guidance. Furthermore, the current passive strategy of implementing PRISMA has not fully brought about needed improvements in the completeness of systematic review reporting.
The PRISMATIC ('PRISMA, Technology, and Implementation to enhance reporting Completeness') project aims to use novel methods to enable more efficient and effective translation of PRISMA reporting guidelines into practice. We will establish a working group who will develop a unified PRISMA statement that harmonises content across the main PRISMA guideline and several of its extensions. We will then develop a web application that generates a reporting template and checklist customised to the characteristics and methods of a systematic review ('PRISMA-Web app') and conduct a randomised trial to evaluate its impact on authors' reporting. We will also develop a web application that helps peer reviewers appraise systematic review manuscripts ('PRISMA-Peer app') and conduct a diagnostic accuracy study to evaluate its impact on peer reviewers' detection of incomplete reporting.
We anticipate the novel guidance and web-based apps developed throughout the project will substantively enhance the completeness of reporting of systematic reviews of health evidence, ultimately benefiting users who rely on systematic reviews to inform health care decision-making.
系统评价员所做工作和发现的不完整报告妨碍了报告使用者全面解读研究结果，并理解潜在证据的局限性。报告规范，如 PRISMA 声明及其扩展版，旨在改进报告。然而，各种 PRISMA 报告规范之间存在重要的不一致，这导致了混淆和误解。此外，用户可能需要查阅多个规范才能全面了解指南。此外，目前实施 PRISMA 的被动策略并未充分提高系统评价报告的完整性。
PRISMATIC（“PRISMA、技术和实施以提高报告完整性”）项目旨在使用新方法，使 PRISMA 报告规范更有效地转化为实践。我们将成立一个工作组，制定一份统一的 PRISMA 声明，协调主要 PRISMA 指南及其几个扩展版的内容。然后，我们将开发一个生成报告模板和清单的网络应用程序，该模板和清单针对系统评价的特点和方法进行定制（“PRISMA-Web 应用程序”），并进行一项随机试验，以评估其对作者报告的影响。我们还将开发一个帮助同行评审员评估系统评价手稿的网络应用程序（“PRISMA-Peer 应用程序”），并进行一项诊断准确性研究，以评估其对同行评审员发现不完整报告的影响。
我们预计，整个项目开发的新指南和网络应用程序将实质性地提高健康证据系统评价报告的完整性，最终使依赖系统评价为医疗保健决策提供信息的用户受益。
