The methods and results of systematic reviews should be reported in sufficient detail to allow
users to assess the trustworthiness and applicability of the review findings. The Preferred …

The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement,
published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why …

… Tammy C Hoffmann associate professor of clinical epidemiology1, Paul P Glasziou director
and professor of evidence based medicine1, Isabelle Boutron professor of epidemiology2, …

Objectives To describe the processes used to update the PRISMA 2009 statement for
reporting systematic reviews, present results of a survey conducted to inform the update, …

Background Viral epidemics or pandemics of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) pose a global
threat. Examples are influenza (H1N1) caused by the H1N1pdm09 virus in 2009, severe …

Importance Unrealistic patient expectations of the benefits and harms of interventions can
influence decision making and may be contributing to increasing intervention uptake and …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and shared decision making (SDM) are both essential to
quality health care, yet the interdependence between these 2 approaches is not generally …

Importance Inaccurate clinician expectations of the benefits and harms of interventions can
profoundly influence decision making and may be contributing to increasing intervention …

Shared decision making enables a clinician and patient to participate jointly in making a
health decision, having discussed the options and their benefits and harms, and having …

… Tammy C Hoffmann associate professor of clinical epidemiology, Chrissy Erueti assistant
professor, Paul P Glasziou professor … Correspondence to: T Hoffmann thoffmann@bond.edu.au …