What is PRISMA?

PRISMA stands for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. The PRISMA Statement aims to help authors improve the reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses by promoting transparency of reporting for methods and results. Click here to read the complete checklist.

About the Equity-Extension

Our work over the last five years has identified a significant gap in reporting effectiveness of interventions for poor and vulnerable populations. One way to improve reporting of facets of specific importance to SRs reporting on inequities is to develop specific reporting guidelines, for example, by extending or amplifying the PRISMA statement. Currently PRISMA has no guidance specific to health equity and we are now in the process of developing an extension to PRISMA specifically for equity SRs.

Read the Commentary.

The survey has been posted on the following blogs:

• Speaking of Medicine (PLOSMed)
• BMJ

Developing an Equity-Extension for PRISMA: Bellagio, Italy
February 8-10, 2012

Back row L-R: Trish Groves, Terri Pigott, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Tomas Pantoja, Mark Petticrew, Howard White, Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Liz Waters, Prathap Tharyan, Kent Ranson, Liz Wager

Front row L-R: Jennifer O'Neill, Tessa Tan Torres, Shally Awasthi, Peter Tugwell, Zulfi Bhutta, Andy Oxman, Vivian Welch, David Tovey, Ginny Barbour