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A.2.5  What’s New and History

The ‘What’s new’ section should describe the changes to the protocol or review since it was last published in the CDSR. At each update or amendment of a review, at least one ‘What’s new’ event should be recorded, containing the type of event, the date of the change and a description of what was changed. This description might be, for example, a brief summary of how much new information has been added to the review (for example, number of studies, participants or extra analyses) and any important changes to the conclusions, results or methods of the review. Entries from the ‘What’s new’ table that do not relate to the current citation version of the review should be listed in the ‘History’.

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