This record describes a general, PRISMA 2020–compliant methodological protocol for conducting non-clinical systematic reviews, scoping reviews, meta-analysis, and structured narrative reviews. The protocol defines standardized procedures for eligibility criteria, literature search, independent dual-reviewer screening, data extraction, quality assessment, and evidence synthesis. It is intended as a reusable methodological backbone and may be cited across multiple manuscripts, with context-specific adaptations reported transparently. The protocol involves secondary analysis of published literature only and does not include human participants or clinical interventions. PROSPERO registration is therefore not applicable.
Otto Ketney (Wed,) studied this question.