About the Authors
- David Moher
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* E-mail: dmoher@ohri.ca
Affiliations Ottawa Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Alessandro Liberati
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Affiliations Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, Centro Cochrane Italiano, Istituto Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy
- Jennifer Tetzlaff
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Affiliation Ottawa Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Douglas G. Altman
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Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- The PRISMA Group
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¶Membership of the PRISMA Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: DM AL JT DGA. Wrote the first draft of the paper: DM AL DGA. Contributed to the writing of the paper: DM AL JT DGA. Participated in regular conference calls, identified the participants, secured funds, planned the meeting, participated in the meeting, and drafted the manuscript: DM AL DGA. Participated in identifying the evidence base for PRISMA, refining the checklist, and drafting the manuscript: JT. Agree with the recommendations: DM AL JT DGA.