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Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives: By Organization
This chart lists the major biomedical research reporting guidelines that provide advice for reporting research methods and findings. They usually "specify a minimum set of items required for a clear and transparent account of what was done and what was found in a research study, reflecting, in particular, issues that might introduce bias into the research" (Adapted from the EQUATOR Network Resource Centre). The chart also includes editorial style guides for writing research reports or other publications.
| ORGANIZATION/GUIDELINE | DESCRIPTION |
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| AMA Manual of Style Online Edition
AMA Manual of Style (10th ed.)(Print Version) |
A manuscript style guide for authors and editors. |
| ASSERT: A Standard for the Scientific and Ethical Review of Trials | Proposed standard for the review and monitoring of randomized clinical trials by research ethics committees. Checklist incorporates certain elements of CONSORT, to ensure fulfillment of the requirements for scientific validity in the ethical conduct of clinical research. (18-item checklist)
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| CDISC: Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium | Standards supporting the acquisition, exchange, submission and archive of clinical research data and metadata. Develops and supports global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and related areas of healthcare. |
| COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics | Forum for editors of peer-reviewed journals to discuss issues related to the integrity of the scientific record. Supports and encourages editors to report, catalogue and instigate investigations into ethical problems in the publication process. All Elsevier journals become COPE members. |
| CONSORT: Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials | Evidence-based, minimum recommendations for reporting RCTs. Offers a standard way for authors to prepare reports of trial findings, facilitating their complete and transparent reporting, and aiding their critical appraisal and interpretation (22-item checklist). Extensions of the CONSORT statement for specific types of RCTs Journals that support CONSORT |
| CONSORT Plus | Extension of CONSORT requirements that imposes data integrity constraints not possible in text-based reporting. |
| CSE: Council of Science Editors | Organization that promotes excellence in the communication of scientific information. Fosters networking, education, discussion, and exchange. Authoritative resource on current and emerging issues in the communication of scientific information.
CSE Editorial Policies and Endorsement |
| EASE:European Association of Science Editors | Internationally-oriented community of individuals who share an interest in science communication and editing. Offers the opportunity to stay abreast of trends in the rapidly changing environment of scientific publishing, whether traditional or electronic. |
| EQUATOR: Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research | Umbrella organization that brings together developers of reporting guidelines, medical journal editors and peer reviewers, research funding bodies and other collaborators with mutual interest in improving the quality of research publications and of research itself.
EQUATOR Network Plan: 2007-2012 Additional Resources & page of other Reporting Guidelines Vandenbroucke JP. STREGA, STROBE, STARD, SQUIRE, MOOSE, PRISMA, GNOSIS, TREND, ORION, COREQ, QUOROM, REMARK... and CONSORT: for whom does the guideline toll?. J Clin Epidemiol. 2009 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19181482. Simera I, Altman DG, Moher D, Schulz KF, Hoey J. Guidelines for reporting health research: the EQUATOR network's survey of guideline authors. PLoS Med. 2008 Jun 24;5(6):e139. PubMed PMID: 18578566; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2443184. |
| FAME Editorial Guidelines: Forum for African Medical Editors | 68-page guidelines. |
| GNOSIS: Guidelines for Neuro-Oncology: Standards for Investigational Studies | Guidelines to standardize the reporting of surgically based Phase 1 and Phase 2 neuro-oncology trials. The guidelines are summarized in a checklist format that can be used as a framework from which to construct a surgically based trial.
Chang S, Vogelbaum M, Lang FF, Haines S, Kunwar S, Chiocca EA, Olivi A, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Parsa A, Warnick R; American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS). GNOSIS: guidelines for neuro-oncology: standards for investigational studies--reporting of surgically based therapeutic clinical trials. J Neurooncol. 2007 Apr;82(2):211-20. Epub 2006 Dec 5. PubMed PMID: 17146595. Chang SM, Reynolds SL, Butowski N, Lamborn KR, Buckner JC, Kaplan RS, Bigner DD. GNOSIS: guidelines for neuro-oncology: standards for investigational studies-reporting of phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials. Neuro Oncol. 2005 Oct;7(4):425-34. PubMed PMID: 16212807; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1871726. |
| GPP: Good Publication Practice | Guidelines that encourage responsible and ethical publication of the results of clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.
BioMedCentral & BMJ journals ask authors of industry-sponsored studies, or of papers in industry-sponsored supplements, to follow GPP. Wager E, Field EA, Grossman L. Good publication practice for pharmaceutical companies. Curr Med Res Opin. 2003;19(3):149-54. PubMed PMID: 12814125. |
| GLISC: Grey Literature International Steering Committee | Guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports and writing/distributing grey literature. |
| Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences: Mulford Library, University of Toledo HSL | Journal titles listed in alphabetical order. Contains publishing guidelines for some journals. Indicates which journals follow CONSORT and/or other guidelines. |
| ICMJE: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors | Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals Vancouver Group.
Journal List |
| Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing | Handbook. |
| MIBBI: Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations | Aims to increase the visibility of projects developing guidance for the reporting of aspects of biological and biomedical science. Finds MIBBI-registered reporting guidelines for various domains in the life sciences through the Portal:
(See Tab 2: MIBBI Portal Info)
Analysis of reporting guidelines and the disciplines represented |
| MOOSE: Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology | Proposal for reporting meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology.
Stroup DF, Berlin JA, Morton SC, Olkin I, Williamson GD, Rennie D, Moher D, Becker BJ, Sipe TA, Thacker SB. Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group. JAMA. 2000 Apr 19;283(15):2008-12. Review. PubMed PMID:10789670. |
| Ophthalmology Study Design Worksheet #6 |
Checklist for cross-sectional studies submitted to the journal, Ophthalmology (42-item checklist). |
| ORION Statement: Guidelines for Transparent Reporting of Outbreak Reports and Intervention studies Of Nosocomial infection | Items to include when reporting an outbreak or intervention study of a nosocomial organism (22-item checklist). Endorsed by a number of professional special interest groups and societies including the Association of Medical Microbiologists (AMM), British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) & the Infection Control Nurses' Association (ICNA) Research and Development Group. |
| Practihc: Pragmatic Randomized Control Trials in Healthcare | European Union-funded converted action which provides open-access tools, training and mentoring to researchers in developing countries who are interested in designing and conducting pragmatic randomized controlled trials of healthcare interventions. |
| PRIMER Collaboration: PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH | Group that aims to improve the design of studies, their presentation, interpretation of results and translation into practice. |
| QUOROM: QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses |
Checklist that describes the group's preferred way to present the abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion sections of a report of a meta-analysis.
Moher D, Cook DJ, Eastwood S, Olkin I, Rennie D, Stroup DF. Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement. Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses. Lancet. 1999 Nov 27;354(9193):1896-900. Review. PubMed PMID: 10584742. |
| RedHot: Reporting Data on Homeopathic Treatments (A Supplement to CONSORT) | Standard for reporting details of homeopathic treatments. 8-item checklist designed to be used by authors and editors when publishing reports of clinical trials.
RedHot Journals |
| REMARK: REporting recommendations for tumor MARKer prognostic studies | Guidelines for reporting of tumor marker studies.
McShane LM, Altman DG, Sauerbrei W, Taube SE, Gion M, Clark GM; Statistics Subcommittee of NCI-EORTC Working Group on Cancer Diagnostics. REporting recommendations for tumor MARKer prognostic studies (REMARK). Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2006 Nov;100(2):229-35. Epub 2006 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 16932852. |
| SMRS: Standard Metabolic Reporting Structures | Summary recommendations for standardization and reporting of metabolic analyses.
Lindon JC, Nicholson JK, Holmes E, Keun HC, Craig A, Pearce JT, Bruce SJ, Hardy N, Sansone SA, Antti H, Jonsson P, Daykin C, Navarange M, Beger RD, Verheij ER, Amberg A, Baunsgaard D, Cantor GH, Lehman-McKeeman L, Earll M, Wold S, Johansson E, Haselden JN, Kramer K, Thomas C, Lindberg J, Schuppe-Koistinen I, Wilson ID, Reily MD, Robertson DG, Senn H, Krotzky A, Kochhar S, Powell J, van der Ouderaa F, Plumb R, Schaefer H, Spraul M; Standard Metabolic Reporting Structures working group. Summary recommendations for standardization and reporting of metabolic analyses. Nat Biotechnol. 2005 Jul;23(7):833-8. PubMed PMID: 16003371. |
| STARD: STAndards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy | Aims to improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy, to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in the study (internal validity) and to evaluate its generalizability (25-item checklist).
Adopters of STARD: 1) Visit homepage; 2) Click "Adopters of STARD" |
| STREGA: STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Associations | The purpose of the workshop was to develop evidence-based guidelines to promote clear reporting of genetic association studies, and reduce gaps in the evidence regarding potential methodological biases in such studies. |
| STRICTA: STandards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture | Designed as a supplement to CONSORT, which has led to improved reporting of trial design and conduct in general. Current plans are to revise STRICTA in collaboration with the CONSORT Group, such that STRICTA becomes an "official" extension to CONSORT.
STRICTA Journals |
| STROBE: STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology |
The STROBE Statement is referred to in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
http://www.strobe-statement.org/
These journals refer to STROBE in their Instructions for Authors. |
| Structured Abstracts | National Library of Medicine (NLM) description of structured abstracts and how they are formatted for MEDLINE. |
| Trial Bank Project, University of California San Francisco | Group that seeks to capture trial information from any point during the life-cycle of a clinical trial, but primarily by changing the way clinical trials are published in the academic medical literature. Demonstrated proof of concept of "trial-bank publishing" in collaboration with the Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. |
| WAME: World Association of Medical Editors | Group that aims to publish original, important, well-documented peer-reviewed articles on clinical and laboratory research.
WAME Journals |
Last reviewed: 24 August 2009
Last updated: 24 August 2009
First published: 05 May 2009
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