Relationship between hepatitis C virus infection and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Meta-analysis

Table 1 Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis reporting

Section/topic	No.	Checklist item	Reported on page
TITLE
Title	1	Identify the report as a systematic review, meta-analysis, or both	Title: Meta-analysis
ABSTRACT
Structured summary	2	Provide a structured summary including, as applicable: background; objectives; data sources; study eligibility criteria, participants, and interventions; study appraisal and synthesis methods; results; limitations; conclusions and implications of key findings; systematic review registration number	Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Rationale	3	Describe the rationale for the review in the context of what is already known	Introduction
Objectives	4	Provide an explicit statement of questions being addressed with reference to participants, interventions, comparisons, outcomes and study design	Introduction
METHODS
Protocol and registration	5	Indicate if a review protocol exists, if and where it can be accessed (e.g., Web address), and, if available, provide registration information including registration number	NA
Eligibility criteria	6	Specify study characteristics (e.g., PICOS, length of follow-up) and report characteristics (e.g., years considered, language, publication status) used as criteria for eligibility, giving rationale	Methods: Search strategy and eligibility of relevant studies
Information sources	7	Describe all information sources (e.g., databases with dates of coverage, contact with study authors to identify additional studies) in the search and date last searched	Methods: Search strategy and eligibility of relevant studies
Search	8	Present full electronic search strategy for at least one database, including any limits used, such that it could be repeated	Search strategy
Study selection	9	State the process for selecting studies (i.e., screening, eligibility, included in systematic review, and, if applicable, included in the meta-analysis)	Methods: Eligibility of relevant studies; PRISMA flowchart provided
Data collection process	10	Describe method of data extraction from reports (e.g., piloted forms, independently, in duplicate) and any processes for obtaining and confirming data from investigators	Methods: Data extraction and outcome measures
Data items	11	List and define all variables for which data were sought (e.g., PICOS, funding sources) and any assumptions and simplifications made
Risk of bias in individual studies	12	Describe methods used for assessing risk of bias of individual studies (including specification of whether this was done at the study or outcome level), and how this information is to be used in any data synthesis
Summary measures	13	State the principal summary measures (e.g., risk ratio, difference in means)	Methods: Statistical analysis
Synthesis of results	14	Describe the methods of handling data and combining results of studies, if done, including measures of consistency (e.g., I2) for each meta-analysis

PICOS: Participants, interventions, comparisons, outcomes and study design; PRISMA: Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis; NA: Not available.