PRISMAstatement

PRISMAstatement is a simple package which does one thing: generate publication quality flow charts of study inclusions and exclusions following recommendations of the PRISMA statement. See the vignettes (vignette("PRISMA"), vignette("exclusionflowcharts")) for more details.

Installation

You can install the released version of PRISMAstatement from CRAN with:

install.packages("PRISMAstatement")

Example

library(PRISMAstatement)
prisma(found = 750,
       found_other = 123,
       no_dupes = 776, 
       screened = 776, 
       screen_exclusions = 13, 
       full_text = 763,
       full_text_exclusions = 17, 
       qualitative = 746, 
       quantitative = 319)

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