Abstract
The planned review outlined in this protocol was not converted into a full Cochrane Review. A network meta‐analysis (see reference below) which met the goals of the planned review was published in 2019 which negated the need to complete this review. For this reason the authors requested the protocol be withdrawn by the Common Mental Disorders Cochrane Review Group from the Cochrane Library in March 2019. Slee A, Nazareth I, Bondaronek P, Liu Y, Cheng Z, Freemantle N. Pharmacological treatments for generalised anxiety disorder: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis. Lancet. 2019;393(10173):768‐77