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PRISMA 2020 flow templates

PRISMA — blank template

Starter PRISMA template with placeholder numbers.

Template previewPRISMA 2020 flow
Title of systematic review0 records identified · 1 exclusion reasonIdentificationScreeningEligibilityIncludedRecords identified from:n = 0Databases: 0 · Registers: 0Records removed before screening —duplicates removedn = 0Records screened (title / abstract)n = 0Records excluded by reviewern = 0Reports sought for retrievaln = 0Reports assessed for eligibilityn = 0Reports excluded:n = 0Wrong outcome: n = 0Studies included in reviewn = 0Every record is accounted for: all 4 stages of the flow balance.OKAll 8 stated counts are whole numbers of records.OKIdentification balances: 0 + 0 − 0 = 0 `title_screened` (`excluded_auto` is not stated and read as zero).OKScreening balances: 0 − 0 = 0 `abstracts_sought`.OKRetrieval balances: 0 = 0 `fulltext_assessed` (`other_sought`, `abstracts_unavailable` and `other_unavailable` are not stated and read as zero).OKEligibility balances: 0 − 0 = 0 `studies_included`.OKThe funnel descends: all 3 stage-to-stage comparisons hold — no count is larger than the one before it.OKThe one exclusion reason is named and distinct, accounting for no reports.

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title "Title of systematic review"
db_records 0
register_records 0
duplicates 0
title_screened 0
title_excluded 0
abstracts_sought 0
fulltext_assessed 0
exclude_reason "Wrong outcome" 0
studies_included 0