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Guideline
. 2013;10(4):e1001419.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001419. Epub 2013 Apr 9.

PRISMA for Abstracts: reporting systematic reviews in journal and conference abstracts

Elaine M Beller  1 , Paul P Glasziou, Douglas G Altman, Sally Hopewell, Hilda Bastian, Iain Chalmers, Peter C Gøtzsche, Toby Lasserson, David Tovey; PRISMA for Abstracts Group
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PRISMA for Abstracts: reporting systematic reviews in journal and conference abstracts

Elaine M Beller et al. PLoS Med. 2013.

Abstract

Elaine Beller and colleagues from the PRISMA for Abstracts group provide a reporting guidelines for reporting abstracts of systematic reviews in journals and at conferences.

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Conflict of interest statement

TL is employed by The Cochrane Collaboration. TL is an editor (unpaid) for the Cochrane Airways Group. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.

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This research was supported (in part) by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Library of Medicine). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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