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12. Report and the PRISMA 2020 checklist

The review's PDF reports every item of the PRISMA 2020 checklist. What the review's own work says -- the criteria, the searches, the flow, how many reviewers worked and how, every analysis -- it writes itself. What only your team can say, you write on Report.

The Report tab: your sections beside the checklist

  1. Write each section: the rationale and objectives; the abstract's limitations and interpretation; the discussion; registration (or not registered), and why the protocol changed if it did; funding; competing interests; and what is publicly available. A section PRISMA needs and you have not written is outlined.
  2. Follow the checklist beside them: each of its 42 items reported or not yet. Items 21 and 22 are reported once you have judged each synthesis's missing results and certainty on Synthesis.
  3. Download the PDF. Its last appendix is the checklist, each item with the section and page reporting it. While any item is missing, every page says how many, so a draft is never mistaken for the finished report.