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Guideline
. 2009 Jul 21:339:b2535.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2535.

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

David Moher  1 , Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Douglas G Altman; PRISMA Group
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Guideline

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

David Moher et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

David Moher and colleagues introduce PRISMA, an update of the QUOROM guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Flow of information through the different phases of a systematic review.
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