title: Why prospective registration of systematic reviews makes sense.
abstract: Prospective registration of systematic reviews promotes transparency, helps reduce potential for bias and serves to avoid unintended duplication of reviews. Registration offers advantages to many stakeholders in return for modest additional effort from the researchers registering their reviews.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), University of York, Heslington, York, UK, YO10 5DD. lesley.stewart@york.ac.uk
authors.forename: Lesley
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moher
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shekelle
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D035843:Biomedical Research; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D038622:Internationality; D012042:Registries; D012196:Review Literature as Topic