Background The promotion of health equity, the absence of avoidable and unfair differences
in health outcomes, is a global imperative. Systematic reviews are an important source of
evidence for health decision makers but have been found to lack assessments of the
intervention effects on health equity. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) is a 27-item checklist intended to improve transparency and
reporting of systematic reviews. We developed an equity extension for PRISMA (PRISMA-E …

Background The promotion of health equity, the absence of avoidable and unfair differences
in health outcomes, is a global imperative. Systematic reviews are an important source of
evidence for health decision-makers, but have been found to lack assessments of the
intervention effects on health equity. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) is a 27 item checklist intended to improve transparency and
reporting of systematic reviews. We developed an equity extension for PRISMA (PRISMA-E …