Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement

David Moher; Larissa Shamseer; Mike Clarke; Davina Ghersi; Alessandro Liberati; Mark Petticrew; Paul Shekelle; Lesley A Stewart

doi:10.1186/2046-4053-4-1

Systematic Reviews

Table 4 Proposed stakeholders, actions, and potential benefits for supporting adherence to PRISMA-P

From: Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement

Stakeholder	Proposed action	Potential benefits
Funders	Promote or mandate adherence to PRISMA-P or use PRISMA-P as a template for systematic review proposals for grant applications	Improved quality, completeness, and consistency of systematic review proposal submissions
Funders		Standardized protocol content will improve peer review efficiency and investigator understanding of requirements
Systematic review authors/groups/organizations	Use/adhere to PRISMA-P during protocol development	Improved quality, completeness, and consistency of protocol content
		Enables reviewers to anticipate and avoid future changes to review methods (i.e., outcomes)
		Increased awareness of minimum content for protocol reporting
		Improved completeness of reporting of completed reviews
PROSPERO (and other review registries)	Encourage the development of PRISMA-P-based protocols	Improved quality of registry entries
PROSPERO (and other review registries)	Encourage the development of PRISMA-P-based protocols	Improved consistency across registry entries, protocols, and systematic reviews
Practice guideline developers	Use PRISMA-P to gauge the completeness of protocols and facilitate detection of selective reporting when considering reviews for guideline inclusion	Enables easy comparison across protocols, registry entries, and completed systematic reviews
Policymakers	Advocate use of PRISMA-P by those funding and carrying out systematic reviews	May yield better quality, more complete, and more consistent reviews to inform decision-making
Journal editors	Encourage compliance to PRISMA-P for authors submitting protocols for publication	Improved quality, completeness, and consistency of protocols over those published in journals not endorsing PRISMA-P
	Offer PRISMA-P as a template to assist in protocol writing for publication	Increased efficiency in protocol peer and author understanding of journal requirements
		Improved transparency and interpretation of reviews by readers
Educators	Use PRISMA-P as a training tool	Simplified teaching and grading of protocols
Educators	Encourage adherence in students submitting protocols for coursework	Improved quality, completeness, and consistency of protocol content
Students	Develop protocols for coursework or research using PRISMA-P	Improved understanding of the minimum protocol content
		Well-trained systematic reviewer going into the workforce

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