Adherence to literature search reporting guidelines in leading rheumatology journals’ systematic reviews: umbrella review protocol

Literature searches are important components of systematic reviews. They are not only informative of the retrieval process, but they also set the data to be analyzed and influence additional components of systematic reviews. Despite the available guidelines, several studies have shown that the quali...

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Published in:	Rheumatology international Vol. 42; no. 12; pp. 2135 - 2140
Main Authors:	Pérez-Neri, Iván, Pineda, Carlos, Flores-Guerrero, Jose L., Estêvão, M. Dulce, Vasanthan, Lenny T., Lorente, Sonia, García-González, Renato, Devulapalli, Vighnesh, Weerasekara, Ishanka, de Aguiar, Débora Regina, Barros-Sevillano, Shamir, Le, Long Khanh-Dao, Sandoval, Hugo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01-12-2022 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Medicine Medicine & Public Health Protocol Protocols Rheumatology PRISMA Systematic review Search strategy Rheumatology
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Summary:	Literature searches are important components of systematic reviews. They are not only informative of the retrieval process, but they also set the data to be analyzed and influence additional components of systematic reviews. Despite the available guidelines, several studies have shown that the quality of reporting in systematic reviews is deficient in several medical fields. Systematic reviews may not comply completely with those guidelines despite explicitly stating they do. This protocol intends to answer to what extent systematic reviews published in rheumatology journals have complied with the PRISMA’s search strategy guidelines published in 2009. The objective of the study is to analyze the compliance with the PRISMA (2009) search strategy guidelines among systematic reviews published in leading rheumatology journals. Inclusion criteria for this umbrella review protocol are systematic reviews (with or without meta-analyses) that mention having followed the PRISMA statement (2009) in their methods section, and published in journals listed in the Rheumatology category of the Journal of Citations Report 2020. Exclusion criteria are articles published before 2009; retraction letters, notes, expressions of concern; systematic reviews using PRISMA 2020. Databases to be consulted are Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus, from inception to present. Data summaries will be presented in graphs, figures, tables and network maps. A narrative synthesis will be described. This protocol complies with guidelines such as PRISMA 2020, PRISMA-A, PRISMA-P, PRISMA-S, PRESS, and JBI Manual for evidence synthesis, as long as it is suitable for umbrella review protocols. Articles in any language will be considered.
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ISSN:	1437-160X 0172-8172 1437-160X
DOI:	10.1007/s00296-022-05194-1