Synthesizing and presenting findings using other methods

By J. McKenzie, S. Brennan. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, 2019

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Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews: reporting guideline (2020, methodology): “…of visual displays include forest plots,24 harvest plots,25 efect direction plots,26 albatross plots,27 bubble plots,28 and box and whisker plots.29 McKenzie and Brennan (2019) provide a description of these plots, when they should be used, and their pros and cons.11 Item 8: reporting results…”
The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. (2021, methodology): “…of effect estimates (described below) and other methods, such as combining P values, calculating the range and distribution of observed effects, and vote counting based on the direction of effect (see McKenzie and Brennan 25 for a description of each method) • Meta-analysis of effect estimates —”
The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews (2021, methodology): “Meta-analysis of effect estimates—A statistical technique used to synthesise results when study effect estimates and their variances are available, yielding a quantitative summary of results [25]”