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Increasing the transparency of systematic reviews: presenting a generalized registration form

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posted on 2023-11-14, 15:42 authored by Olmo R van den Akker, Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters, Caitlin J Bakker, Rickard Carlsson, Nicholas A Coles, Katherine S Corker, Gilad Feldman, David Moreau, Thomas Nordström, Jade S Pickering, Amy Riegelman, Marta K Topor, Nieky van Veggel, Siu Kit Yeung, Mark Call, David T Mellor, Nicole Pfeiffer

This paper presents a generalized registration form for systematic reviews that can be used when currently available forms are not adequate. The form is designed to be applicable across disciplines (i.e., psychology, economics, law, physics, or any other field) and across review types (i.e., scoping review, review of qualitative studies, meta-analysis, or any other type of review). That means that the reviewed records may include research reports as well as archive documents, case law, books, poems, etc. Items were selected and formulated to optimize broad applicability instead of specificity, forgoing some benefits afforded by a tighter focus. This PRISMA 2020 compliant form is a fallback for more specialized forms and can be used if no specialized form or registration platform is available. When accessing this form on the Open Science Framework website, users will therefore first be guided to specialized forms when they exist. In addition to this use case, the form can also serve as a starting point for creating registration forms that cater to specific fields or review types.

History

Volume

12

Issue number

1

Page range

170

Publication title

Systematic Reviews

ISSN

2046-4053

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Location

England

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Item sub-type

Letter, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Media of output

Electronic