Update to the PRISMA guidelines for network meta-analyses and scoping reviews and development of guidelines for rapid reviews: a scoping review protocol

Areti Angeliki Veroniki^{1

2}, Brian Hutton^{3

4}, Adrienne Stevens⁵, Joanne E McKenzie⁶, Matthew J Page⁶, David Moher⁷, Jessie McGowan⁸, Sharon E Straus^{1

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9}, Tianjing Li^{10

11}, Zachary Munn¹², Danielle Pollock¹², Heather Colquhoun¹³, Christina Godfrey¹⁴, Maureen Smith¹⁵, Janice Tufte¹⁶, Sherrie Logan^{17

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21}, Ferrán Catalá-López^{3

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23}, David Tovey²⁴, Juan V A Franco^{25

26}, Stephanie Chang²⁷, Chantelle Garritty^{8

28}, Lisa Hartling²⁹, Tanya Horsley³⁰, Etienne V Langlois³¹, Matthew McInnes^{7

32}, Martin Offringa³³, Vivian Welch³⁴, Chris Pritchard³⁵, Hanan Khalil³⁶, Nicole Mittmann³⁷, Micah Peters^{12

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40}, Menelaos Konstantinidis¹, Ellen B M Elsman⁴¹, Shannon E Kelly⁴², Adrian Aldcroft⁴³, Sai Surabi Thirugnanasampanthar¹, Jasmeen Dourka¹, Dipika Neupane¹, George Well^{8

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44}, Elie Akl⁴⁵, Michael Wilson⁴⁶, Karla Soares-Weiser⁴⁷, Andrea C Tricco^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴ Ottawa University School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵ Centre for Immunization Programs, Infectious Diseases and Vaccination Programs Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁶ Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
⁷ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁸ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁹ Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹² Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
¹³ Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹⁴ Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
¹⁵ Patient Partner, Cochrane Consumer Network Executive, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Patient Partner, Cochrane Consumer, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Ambassador, Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁷ Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
¹⁸ Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
¹⁹ Patient Partner Reviewer, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
²⁰ Pediatric Families and Engaged Partners, Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Montreal, QC, Canada.
²¹ Master of Public Health (Health Promotion) Graduate Program, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
²² Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS-IPP), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
²³ Department of Health Planning and Economics, National School of Public Health, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
²⁴ Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Sussex, United Kingdom.
²⁵ Institute of General Practice, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
²⁶ BMJ Evidence Based Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
²⁷ American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
²⁸ Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
²⁹ Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
³⁰ Research and Evaluation, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³¹ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³² Departments of Radiology and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³³ Child Health, Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³⁴ Bruyere Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³⁵ Institute of Health and Allied Professions, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
³⁶ La Trobe University, School of Psychology and Public Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
³⁷ Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³⁸ Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, Clinical and Health Sciences University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³⁹ School of Nursing, Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁴⁰ The Danish Centre of Systematic Reviews: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
⁴¹ Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴² Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴³ BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom.
⁴⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴⁵ American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁴⁶ Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
⁴⁷ Cochrane Collaboration, London, United Kingdom.
⁴⁸ Epidemiology Division and Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

PMID: 39829235
PMCID: PMC11892999
DOI: 10.11124/JBIES-24-00308

Update to the PRISMA guidelines for network meta-analyses and scoping reviews and development of guidelines for rapid reviews: a scoping review protocol

Areti Angeliki Veroniki et al. JBI Evid Synth. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 1;23(3):517-526.

doi: 10.11124/JBIES-24-00308. Epub 2025 Jan 20.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴ Ottawa University School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵ Centre for Immunization Programs, Infectious Diseases and Vaccination Programs Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁶ Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
⁷ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁸ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁹ Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹² Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
¹³ Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹⁴ Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
¹⁵ Patient Partner, Cochrane Consumer Network Executive, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Patient Partner, Cochrane Consumer, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Ambassador, Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁷ Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
¹⁸ Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
¹⁹ Patient Partner Reviewer, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
²⁰ Pediatric Families and Engaged Partners, Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Montreal, QC, Canada.
²¹ Master of Public Health (Health Promotion) Graduate Program, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
²² Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS-IPP), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
²³ Department of Health Planning and Economics, National School of Public Health, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
²⁴ Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Sussex, United Kingdom.
²⁵ Institute of General Practice, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
²⁶ BMJ Evidence Based Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
²⁷ American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
²⁸ Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
²⁹ Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
³⁰ Research and Evaluation, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³¹ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³² Departments of Radiology and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³³ Child Health, Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³⁴ Bruyere Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³⁵ Institute of Health and Allied Professions, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
³⁶ La Trobe University, School of Psychology and Public Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
³⁷ Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³⁸ Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, Clinical and Health Sciences University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³⁹ School of Nursing, Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁴⁰ The Danish Centre of Systematic Reviews: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
⁴¹ Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴² Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴³ BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom.
⁴⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴⁵ American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁴⁶ Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
⁴⁷ Cochrane Collaboration, London, United Kingdom.
⁴⁸ Epidemiology Division and Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

PMID: 39829235
PMCID: PMC11892999
DOI: 10.11124/JBIES-24-00308

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to develop a list of items for potential inclusion in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) reporting guidelines for network meta-analysis (NMA), scoping reviews (ScRs), and rapid reviews (RRs).

Introduction: The PRISMA extensions for NMA and ScRs were published in 2015 and 2018. However, since then, their methodologies and innovations, including automation, have evolved. There is no reporting guideline for RRs. In 2020, an updated PRISMA statement was published, reflecting advances in the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews. These advances are not yet incorporated into these PRISMA extensions. We will update our previous methods for scoping reviews to inform the update of PRISMA-NMA and PRISMA-ScR as well as the development of the PRISMA-RR reporting guidelines.

Inclusion criteria: This review will include any study design evaluating the completeness of reporting, offering reporting guidance, or assessing methods relevant to NMA, ScRs, or RRs. Editorial guidelines and tutorials that describe items related to reporting completeness will also be eligible.

Methods: We will follow the JBI guidance for scoping reviews. For each PRISMA extension, we will i) search multiple electronic databases from inception to present, ii) search for unpublished studies, and iii) scan the reference lists of included studies. There will be no language limitations. Screening and data extraction will be conducted by 2 researchers independently. A third researcher will resolve discrepancies. We will conduct frequency analyses of the identified items. The final list of items will be considered for potential inclusion in the relevant PRISMA reporting guidelines.

Review registration: NMA protocol (OSF: osf.io/7bkwy ); ScR protocol (OSF: osf.io/7bkwy ); RR protocol (OSF: osf.io/3jcpe ); EQUATOR registration link: https://www.equator-network.org/library/reporting-guidelines-under-development/reporting-guidelines-under-development-for-systematic-reviews/.

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Conflict of interest statement

BH has previously received honoraria from Eversana Inc. for the provision of methodologic advice related to systematic reviews and meta-analysis. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Update to the PRISMA guidelines for network meta-analyses and scoping reviews and development of guidelines for rapid reviews: a scoping review protocol

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