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01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
The utility of PRISMA for abstracts in two cohorts: a comparison of health technology assessment and Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2009-2014
Authors:
Emma Kirkpatrick, Amanda Young, Kathy Tier, Peter Davidson
Published in:
Trials
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
Abstracts of systematic reviews (SRs) play an important role in dissemination of results, with most evidence users consulting the abstract before reading a full article and some only ever consulting the abstract. However, abstracts of SRs are often poorly reported. The PRISMA statement (Liberati et al., 2009) for reporting SRs was extended to include guidelines for the production of abstracts (Beller et al., 2013) to improve this. …