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# systematic-review Produces a **PRISMA 2020 systematic review**: a reproducible, auditable account of how a body of evidence was identified, screened, appraised, and synthesised. Its center of gravity is the **PRISMA flow diagram** — the report is not conformant without one reconciling the count of records at every stage. This genre follows PRISMA 2020 (Page et al., *BMJ* 2021), the current reporting standard for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Before authoring, verify the current PRISMA guidance live — confirm which statement is in force and treat no item count or flow-diagram template as fixed until checked against the live guidance. ## Pattern (industry: PRISMA 2020 systematic review and meta-analysis) 1. **Title / Structured Abstract** — background, objectives, eligibility criteria, information sources, methods of synthesis, results, and conclusions, each named as its own clause of the abstract. 2. **Introduction** — the **rationale** for the review against existing knowledge, and the explicit **objectives** (the review question, framed as PICO or a comparable structure where applicable). 3. **Methods** — the reproducible protocol: - **Eligibility criteria** — inclusion and exclusion criteria for evidence. - **Information sources** — where evidence was sought. - **Search strategy** — the search approach and terms. - **Selection process** — how records were screened and selected. - **Data items** — what was extracted from each included