Guidelines & protocols
Guidelines and protocols
If you are undertaking rigorous research for your assessment task or writing for publication, your lecturer or supervisor may recommend using certain standards and guidelines to ensure the validity of your work. Guideline and protocols are used to ensure consistency, reproducibility, minimise bias, efficiency, transparent reporting, quality control, meet research objectives and evidence synthesis.
A number of guidelines, protocols and standards are available to guide authors through the process:
- PROSPEROProspectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)Systematic reviews (and protocols) prepared and supervised by Cochrane Review Groups.
- Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Manual for Evidence SynthesisPublished 2020. Provides guidance to authors for the conduct and preparation of JBI systematic reviews and evidence syntheses.
- PRISMA: Transparent reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysesProvides an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. It includes a 27-item checklist and a four-phase flow diagram.
Don't forget to check your assessment task details and rubric for specific requirements.