PRISMA Flow Diagram: How publications ‘flow’ through the updated PRISMA 2020 process and chart

PRISMA Flow Diagram Example

The PRISMA Flow Diagram has become a standard part of any systematic review or meta-analysis, and with good reason– it is the most widely accepted method to show the process by which the studies included in a review were included (or excluded). It also shows the different possible steps of a review, different potential sources (from PubMed to ‘expert recommendations’), and the exact reasons you set up to differentiate the wheat from the chaff among the studies you examined.

Create a Great Literature Search

Randomized Controlled Trial[pt] (Filters to RCTs based on the assigned MeSH publication type)

This help article is about searching PubMed via API through the NK Platform. After developing a research question, use NK software to run a literature search on PubMed. These searches can be performed immediately and repeated on a schedule.