Aug 29, 2020
Do the proportion of protocol registrations about systematic reviews outside PROSPERO in medical and biomedical sciences increase over the years?: a meta-epidemiological study protocol
- 1Department of Psychiatry, Seichiryo Hospital;
- 2Kyoto University;
- 3Department of Internal Medicine, Kyoto Min-Iren Asukai Hospital
Protocol Citation: Masahiro Banno, Yasushi Tsujimoto, Yuki Kataoka 2020. Do the proportion of protocol registrations about systematic reviews outside PROSPERO in medical and biomedical sciences increase over the years?: a meta-epidemiological study protocol. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bhxpj7mn
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
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Created: June 26, 2020
Last Modified: August 29, 2020
Protocol Integer ID: 38607
Keywords: Preprint, Protocols.io, clinical trial registry, systematic reviews, meta-epidemiology,
Abstract
Objectives. To evaluate how often researchers registered protocols about systematic reviews (SRs) outside PROSPERO in medical and biomedical sciences.
Methods. This study will be a meta-epidemiological study. We will include all the protocols about SRs in PROSPERO, 44 preprint severs, Protocols.io, ClinicalTrials.gov and International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), OSF Registries since 2011. We will retrieve titles and its publication years and whether the theme of preprints is related with COVID-19. We will describe the proportion of SRs protocol registration in the platforms outside PROSPERO over the years. We will display the trends. We will also compare characteristics of random samples of SRs protocols registered on PROSPERO with those registered outside PROSPERO.
Ethics & Dissemination. This study does not need ethics approval. We registered this study protocol. We will publish the findings in a peer-reviewed journal and may present them at conferences.
Discussion. This study might clarify whether proportion of protocol registrations about systematic reviews to platforms outside PROSPERO in medical and biomedical sciences increase over the years and whether systematic reviewers need to search these data sources before conducting SRs.
Registration: Protocols.io
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