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
Year: 2021
Type: review
Abstract: 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.
Authors: Clare L Ardern, Fionn Büttner, Renato Andrade, Adam Weir, Maureen C Ashe, Sinead Holden, Franco M Impellizzeri, Eamonn Delahunt, H Paul Dijkstra, Stephanie Mathieson, Michael Skovdal Rathleff, Guus Reurink, Catherine Sherrington, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Bill Vicenzino, Jackie L Whittaker, Alexis A Wright, Mike Clarke, David Moher, Matthew J Page, Karim M Khan, Marinus Winters
Institutions: University of British Columbia, La Trobe University, University College Dublin, Universidade do Porto, Espregueira Mendes Clinic, Erasmus MC, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Centre for Aging SMART, Aalborg University, University of Technology Sydney, University of Oxford, The University of Sydney, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Academic Center for Evidence-Based Sports Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, The University of Queensland, Tufts University, Queen's University Belfast, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Monash University, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Medical Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W3202779915