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Implementing the 27 PRISMA 2020 Statement items for systematic reviews in the sport and exercise medicine, musculoskeletal rehabilitation and sports science fields: the PERSiST (implementing Prisma in Exercise, Rehabilitation, Sport medicine and SporTs science) guidance

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Ardern, Clare L, Büttner, Fionn, Andrade, Renato, Weir, Adam, Ashe, Maureen C, Holden, Sinead, Impellizzeri, Franco M, Delahunt, Eamonn +14 more·2022·British Journal of Sports Medicine
DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2021-103987PMC PMC8862073
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Poor reporting of medical and healthcare systematic reviews is a problem from which the sports and exercise medicine, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and sports science fields are not immune. Transparent, accurate and comprehensive systematic review reporting helps researchers replicate methods, readers understand what was done and why, and clinicians and policy-makers implement results in practice. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement and its accompanying Explanation and Elaboration document provide general reporting examples for systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. However, implementation guidance for sport and exercise medicine, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and sports science does not exist. The Prisma in Exercise, Rehabilitation, Sport medicine and SporTs science (PERSiST) guidance attempts to address this problem. Nineteen content experts collaborated with three methods experts to identify examples of exemplary reporting in systematic reviews in sport and exercise medicine (including physical activity), musculoskeletal rehabilitation (including physiotherapy), and sports science, for each of the PRISMA 2020 Statement items. PERSiST aims to help: (1) systematic reviewers improve the transparency and reporting of systematic reviews and (2) journal editors and peer reviewers make informed decisions about systematic review reporting quality.

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  • Field-specific guidelines for evidence syntheses have emerged and will continue to be developed.

    “Field-specific guidelines for evidence syntheses have emerged and will continue to be developed (203).”

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  • PERSiST is recently recommended as a guideline for systematic review research in the field of sports.

    “However, PERSiST (Prisma in Exercise, Rehabilitation, Sport medicine and SporTs science), which is recently recommended as a guideline for SR research in the field of sports [28], was not used in this study.”

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  • PERSiST was not used in this study, which is a limitation.

    “However, PERSiST (Prisma in Exercise, Rehabilitation, Sport medicine and SporTs science), which is recently recommended as a guideline for SR research in the field of sports [28], was not used in this study. This is a limitation of this study.”

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Ardern, C. L., Büttner, F., Andrade, R., Weir, A., Ashe, M. C., Holden, S., Impellizzeri, F. M., Delahunt, E., Dijkstra, H. P., Mathieson, S., Rathleff, M. S., Reurink, G., Sherrington, C., Stamatakis, E., Vicenzino, B., Whittaker, J. L., Wright, A. A., Clarke, M., Moher, D., Page, M. J., Khan, K. M., & Winters, M.
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  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • University College Dublin (IE)
  • Universidade do Porto (PT)
  • Erasmus MC (NL)
  • University of Technology Sydney (AU)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • The University of Sydney (AU)
  • Aalborg University (DK)
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
  • Tufts University (US)
  • Queen's University Belfast (GB)
  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (CA)
  • Monash University (AU)
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Ardern, Clare L
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British Journal of Sports Medicine
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BMJ
Published
2021-10-08
Volume
56
Issue
4
Pages
175-195
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  • 0306-3674 (ISSN-L)
  • 1473-0480
DOI
10.1136/bjsports-2021-103987
PMC
PMC8862073
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W3202779915
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Delphi Technique in Research
Keywords
PRISMA 2020, systematic review reporting, reporting guidelines, sports medicine, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, sports science, physical activity, physiotherapy, reporting quality, peer review, journal editorial policy
MeSH terms
Systematic Reviews as Topic, Exercise Therapy, Humans, Sports, Sports Medicine, Exercise, Evidence-Based Medicine

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