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Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E 2012): explanation and elaboration

Vivian Welch, Mark Petticrew, Jennifer Petkovic, David Moher, Elizabeth Waters, Howard White, Peter Tugwell, Rifat Atun, Shally Awasthi, Virginia Barbour, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Luis Gabriel Cuervo (+20 others)
2016 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology  

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The promotion of health equity, the absence of avoidable and unfair differences in health outcomes, is a global imperative. Systematic reviews are an important source of evidence for health decision makers but have been found to lack assessments of the intervention effects on health equity. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) is a 27-item checklist intended to improve transparency and reporting of systematic reviews. We developed an equity extension
more » ... r PRISMA (PRISMA-E 2012) to help systematic reviewers identify, extract, and synthesize evidence on equity in systematic reviews. Methods and Findings: In this explanation and elaboration article, we provide the rationale for each extension item. These items are additions or modifications to the existing PRISMA statement items, to incorporate a focus on equity. An example of good reporting is provided for each item as well as the original PRISMA item. Conclusions: This explanation and elaboration document is intended to accompany the PRISMA-E 2012 statement and the PRISMA statement to improve understanding of the reporting guideline for users. The PRISMA-E 2012 reporting guideline is intended to improve transparency and completeness of reporting of equity-focused systematic reviews. Improved reporting can lead to better judgment of applicability by policy makers which may result in more appropriate policies and programs and may contribute to reductions in health inequities. Ó
doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.09.001 pmid:26348799 fatcat:iykd2t546va6phuj6ph7dfr5vm
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Vivian Welch, Mark Petticrew, Jennifer Petkovic, David Moher, Elizabeth Waters, Howard White, Peter Tugwell, Rifat Atun, Shally Awasthi, Virginia Barbour, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Trish Groves, Tracey Koehlmoos-Perez, Elizabeth Kristjansson, David Moher, Andy Oxman, Tomas Pantoja, Mark Petticrew, Jennifer Petkovic, Terri Pigott, Kent Ranson, Tessa TanTorres, Prathap Tharyan, David Tovey, Peter Tugwell, Jimmy Volmink, Elizabeth Wager, Elizabeth Waters, Vivian Welch, George Wells, Howard White. "Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E 2012): explanation and elaboration." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2016) 68-89