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Systematic Reviews: A Comprehensive Overview Video Series

Registering a Systematic Review

Learning objectives:

  • Compare features of common databases for registering a systematic review protocol

After viewing the tutorial, take the quiz to gauge your understanding. (Show Quiz)

References: (Show References)

Canellas JVDS, Ritto FG, Rodolico A, Aguglia E, Fernandes GVO, Figueredo CMDS, Vettore MV. The international platform of registered systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (INPLASY) at 3 years: an analysis of 4,658 registered protocols on inplasy.com, platform features, and website statistics. Front Res Metr Anal. 2023 Jul 31;8:1135853. doi: 10.3389/frma.2023.1135853. PMID: 37588882; PMCID: PMC10426905.

Dos Santos MBF, Agostini BA, Bassani R, Pereira GKR, Sarkis-Onofre R. Protocol registration improves reporting quality of systematic reviews in dentistry. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2020 Mar 11;20(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s12874-020-00939-7. PMID: 32160871; PMCID: PMC7065343.

INPLASY [Internet]. Middletown (DE): INPLASY, Inc. - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols. [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://inplasy.com/.

OSF Registries [Internet]. Open Science Framework [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://osf.io/registries.

Pieper D, Rombey T. Where to prospectively register a systematic review. Syst Rev. 2022 Jan 8;11(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s13643-021-01877-1. PMID: 34998432; PMCID: PMC8742923.

PROSPERO (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) [Internet]. (UK): University of York, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/.

Research Registry [Internet]. London(UK): IJS Publishing Group [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://www.researchregistry.com/.

Sahni V. Early Career Professionals Network: Registering Protocols of Systematic Reviews [Internet]. London (UK): Cochrane Community; 2023 [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://community.cochrane.org/news/early-career-professionals-network-registering-protocols-systematic-reviews.

Straus S, Moher D. Registering systematic reviews. CMAJ. 2010 Jan 12;182(1):13-4. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.081849. Epub 2009 Jul 20. PMID: 19620270; PMCID: PMC2802597.

van den Akker OR, Peters GY, Bakker CJ, Carlsson R, Coles NA, Corker KS, Feldman G, Moreau D, Nordström T, Pickering JS, Riegelman A, Topor MK, van Veggel N, Yeung SK, Call M, Mellor DT, Pfeiffer N. Increasing the transparency of systematic reviews: presenting a generalized registration form. Syst Rev. 2023 Sep 22;12(1):170. doi: 10.1186/s13643-023-02281-7. PMID: 37736736; PMCID: PMC10514995.




This video series should be cited as:
Kusnoor SV, Williams AM, Koonce TY, Krump P, Harding L, Zhao J, Giuse NB. Systematic Reviews: A Comprehensive Overview Video Series. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Center for Knowledge Management, 2023. Available from: https://spi-hub.app.vumc.org/sysrev/home.

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