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Have a look on some of the protocol register websites to see what their guidelines say to include in a protocol, and to see how researchers who've already uploaded a protocol to those platforms have written them.
Briggs, J. (2007) 'Appendix 1: Systematic Review Protocol Example: Smoking Cessation Interventions and Strategies for Hospitalised Patients', in Pearson, A., Field, J. & Jordan, Z. (eds.) Evidence-based clinical practice in nursing and health care: assimilating research, experience and expertise. Oxford: Blackwell pp.173-176. Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781444316544.app1 (Accessed: 09 December 2022)
Lasserson, T.J., Thomas, J. & Higgins, J.P.T. (2022) 'Chapter 1: Starting a review' in Higgins, J.P.T., Thomas, J., Chandler, J., Cumpston, M., Li, T., Page, M.J., & Welch, V.A. (eds.) Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.3 (updated February 2022) Available from: https://training.cochrane.org/handbook/current/chapter-01#section-1-5 (Accessed: 09 December 2022)
Sambunjak, D., Cumpston, M., & Watts, C. (2017) 'Module 2: Writing the review protocol', in Cochrane Interactive Learning: Conducting an intervention review, updated September 2022. Available from https://training.cochrane.org/interactivelearning/module-2-writing-review-protocol (Accessed: 09 December 2022)
