PRISMA Flow Diagram Skill

Purpose

Create PRISMA 2020-compliant flow diagrams showing the study selection process in systematic reviews.

PRISMA 2020 Flow Diagram Structure

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Identification                         │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Records identified from:               │
│  • Databases (n = X)                    │
│  • Registers (n = X)                    │
│  • Other sources (n = X)                │
│                                         │
│  Records removed before screening:      │
│  • Duplicate records (n = X)            │
│  • Records marked ineligible (n = X)    │
│  • Records removed for other reasons    │
│    (n = X)                              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
           ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Screening                              │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Records screened (n = X)               │
│  Records excluded (n = X)               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
           ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Reports sought for retrieval (n = X)   │
│  Reports not retrieved (n = X)          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
           ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Reports assessed for eligibility       │
│  (n = X)                                │
│                                         │
│  Reports excluded: (n = X)              │
│  • Reason 1 (n = X)                     │
│  • Reason 2 (n = X)                     │
│  • Reason 3 (n = X)                     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
           ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Included                               │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Studies included in review (n = X)     │
│  Reports of included studies (n = X)    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Required Data Points

1. Identification:

   • Records from each database
   • Duplicates removed
   • Records marked ineligible

2. Screening:

   • Total records screened
   • Records excluded at title/abstract

3. Eligibility:

   • Full-text articles assessed
   • Exclusion reasons with counts

4. Included:

   • Final number of studies
   • Final number of reports

Usage

Provide counts from your literature search and screening process. The skill generates a properly formatted PRISMA 2020 flow diagram in markdown or visual format.

Integration

Use with literature-reviewer agent and research-database MCP server to automatically populate counts from screening data.

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Version: 1.0.0