The new PRISMA 2020 statement was released 29th of March. It is a major update of the 2009 Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses and is a guideline for reporting systematic reviews and is a help to create high quality trusted systematic reviews.

It contains both an update to the PRISMA flowchart, as well as new preferred items to report. You can read all about this in the BMJ article.

In addition all the preferred reported items are also presented with several examples to facilitate and create understanding about the important points to report in systematic reviews in a supporting article. You can read the BMJ article here.

If you want to explore the process behind the update of PRISMA statement from 2009 and the creation of the 2020 version, you can explore the development in an article in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology here.