The Nest Protocol outlines the goal, scope, and key tasks of your systematic literature review or meta-analysis. In it, the project leadership should provide critical background information, the context of the review, and primary and secondary endpoints.

While the Protocol can be viewed from Nest Home, it is only editable from Nest Settings.

Add headers, bullet points, and bold font. There is no one-size-fits all formula for a protocol! The goal of a 'best practices' protocol should be: enable someone unfamiliar with the project to carry out any of the Search, Screening, Tagging, Extraction, or interpretive tasks in your project in the same way that you, as project lead, would do.

You can link to any external resource by highlighting relevant text and then selecting the “link” icon!

If your Organization has created Protocol Templates, you can import them by clicking “Import Template” in the upper right hand corner.

To see instructions on how to create Organizational Templates, see here.

To see general practice recommendations on protocol drafting (and a generic template), see Protocol Best Practices.