Guidelines for Reporting Health Research: A Users Manual

Guidelines for Reporting Health Research is a practical guide to choosing and correctly applying the appropriate guidelines when reporting health research to ensure clear, transparent, and useful reports. This new title begins with an introduction to reporting guidelines and an overview of the importance of transparent reporting, the characteristics of good guidelines, and how to use reporting guidelines effectively in reporting health research. This hands–on manual also describes over a dozen internationally recognised published guidelines such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA and STARD in a clear and easy to understand format. It aims to help researchers choose and use the correct guidelines for reporting their research, and to produce more completely and transparently reported papers which will help to ensure reports are more useful and are not misleading. Written by the authors of health research reporting guidelines, in association with the EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network, Guidelines for Reporting Health Research is a helpful guide to producing publishable research. It will be a valuable resource for researchers in their role as authors and also an important reference for editors and peer reviewers.

List of Contributors Foreword  Drummond Rennie Preface Part 1 1 Importance of transparent reporting of health research Douglas G. Altman and David Moher   2 How to develop a reporting guideline David Moher, Douglas G. Altman, Kenneth F. Schulz, and Iveta Simera 3 Characteristics of available reporting guidelines David Moher, Kenneth F. Schulz, Douglas G. Altman, John Hoey, Jeremy Grimshaw, Donald Miller, Dugald Seely,  Iveta Simera, Margaret Sampson, Laura Weeks, and Mary Ocampo 4 Using reporting guidelines effectively to ensure good reporting of health research Douglas G. Altman and Iveta Simera   5 Ambiguities and confusions between reporting and conduct Kenneth F. Schulz, David Moher, Douglas G. Altman   6 The EQUATOR Network: helping to achieve high standards in the reporting of health research studies Iveta Simera, Allison Hirst, and Douglas G. Altman Part 2 7 SPIRIT (Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials) David Moher and An–Wen Chan   8 CONSORT for abstracts Sally Hopewell and Mike Clarke   9 CONSORT Douglas G. Altman, David Moher and Kenneth F. Schulz   10 CONSORT extension for better reporting of harms John P.A. Ioannidis   11 CONSORT for nonpharmacologic treatments Isabelle Boutron and Philippe Ravaud   12 CONSORT for pragmatic trials (Practihc) Merrick Zwarenstein   13 CONSORT for cluster randomized trials Diana R. Elbourne, Marion K. Campbell, Gilda Piaggio and Douglas G. Altman   14 CONSORT for non–inferiority and equivalence trials Gilda Piaggio, Diana Elbourne, and Douglas G. Altman   15 STRICTA (STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture) Hugh MacPherson   16 TREND (Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non–randomized Designs) Don C. Des Jarlais   17 STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology) Myriam Cevallos and Matthias Egger   18 STREGA (Strengthening the Reporting of Genetic Associations) Julian Little   19 STARD (STAndards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy studies) Patrick M.M. Bossuyt   20 SURGE (The SUrvey Reporting GuidelinE) Jeremy Grimshaw   21 COREQ (Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Studies) Andrew Booth, Karin Hannes, Angela Harden, Jane Noyes, and Janet Harris for the Cochrane Collaboration Qualitative Research Methods Group   22 SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Samuel J. Huber, Greg Ogrinc and Frank Davidoff   23 REMARK (REporting recommendations for tumour MARKer prognostic studies) Douglas G. Altman, Lisa M. McShane, Willi Sauerbrei, Sheila E. Taube, and Margaret M. Cavenagh   24 PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta–Analyses) David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Jennifer Tetzlaff   Part 3 25 SAMPL (the Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature guidelines) Thomas A. Lang and Douglas G. Altman   26 Guidelines for presenting tables and figures in scientific manuscripts David L. Schriger   27 Documenting Clinical and Laboratory Images in Publications: the CLIP Principles Thomas A. Lang, Cassandra Talerico, and George C. M. Siontis   28 Reporting guidelines for health economic evaluations: BMJ guidelines for authors and peer reviewers of economic submissions Andrew H. Briggs and  Michael F. Drummond   Part 4 29 Establishing a coherent reporting guidelines policy in health journals Jason L. Roberts, Timothy T. Houle, Elizabeth W. Loder, Donald B. Penzien, Dana P. Turner and John F. Rothrock Index

David Moher, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Douglas G. Altman, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford and EQUATOR Network, Oxford, UK Kenneth F. Schulz, FHI360, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Iveta Simera, EQUATOR Network, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Elizabeth Wager, Sideview, Princes Risborough, UK