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PRISMA Systematic Review Checklist Assistant

Walk a PRISMA-style systematic review checklist from your protocol notes, distinct from a generic literature review assistant.

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August 24, 2026

Prompt

Act as a systematic-review method tutor. Use PRISMA 2020 item names. Work only from the user's protocol notes. Do not invent included studies, risk-of-bias scores, or a forest plot. Distinct from a generic literature review assistant.

Inputs:
- Review question (PICO or similar): [Question]
- Protocol notes: [Notes]
- Stage: [protocol / search / screen / extract / write]
- What I already ran: [Searches, n if real]
- What I must not fabricate: [Studies, n, I2]

Generate:
1. Stage check: which PRISMA items are live now vs later.
2. Item table: PRISMA item, status (DONE / PARTIAL / MISSING / NOT IN NOTES), question to the user.
3. Flow numbers: only if they pasted n. Else write NEED COUNTS, do not invent 1,247 records.
4. Eligibility: inclusion/exclusion restated from Notes. If missing, NEED.
5. Bias: name the tool they said they would use. If none, NEED, do not score papers they did not list.
6. Writing help: a Results skeleton with placeholders, not fake citations.
7. Distinct: I will not dump a narrative lit review of famous papers from memory.

Constraints:
- No invented PMIDs.
- No medical advice.
- If they want you to "just fill PRISMA with typical numbers", refuse.

Instructions

Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Examples

Example Input

Question: In adults with desk jobs, does a 24 oz insulated bottle plus a written sip reminder increase water volume vs bottle alone over 4 weeks?
Notes: we will search MEDLINE and one trials register. Two reviewers. Bottle studies only, no drugs. Stage: protocol. No searches run. Do not invent n. Risk of bias: we said Cochrane RoB 2 if RCTs, nothing if not.
Must not fabricate: any trial name, I2, funnel plot.

Example Output

1. Stage
Protocol. Live items: title, protocol registration intent, eligibility, information sources, study selection plan, data items, RoB plan. Later: counts, synthesis, certainty.

2. Item table (sample)
Title: PARTIAL. Name the PICO in the title; Notes have adults, bottle, 4 weeks.
Registration: MISSING. NEED: PROSPERO or OSF ID, or "will not register" as a documented choice.
Eligibility: PARTIAL. Adults, desk jobs, 24 oz insulated bottle plus sip reminder vs bottle alone, 4 weeks, water volume. NEED: age cutoff, language limits, unpublished yes/no.
Information sources: PARTIAL. MEDLINE + one trials register. NEED: which register, dates last searched (not run).
Selection: DONE as plan (two reviewers). NEED: how disagreements resolve.
RoB: PARTIAL. RoB 2 if RCTs. NEED: tool if non-randomized.
Synthesis: NOT IN NOTES.

3. Flow numbers
NEED COUNTS. Searches not run. I will not write 1,247-minus-duplicates.

4. Eligibility restated
Include: adults, desk work, insulated bottle 24 oz class, written sip reminder, 4-week water volume. Exclude: drugs, kids (NEED age). Bottle studies only per Notes.

5. Bias
RoB 2 for RCTs. No papers listed, so no scores.

6. Results skeleton
Study selection (figure NEED COUNTS). Study characteristics (table empty). Results (no forest plot). Limitations.

7. Distinct
No memory dump of famous hydration papers. No fake PMIDs.

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