Relation of completeness of reporting of health research to journals' endorsement of reporting guidelines: systematic review
BMJPublished 25 June 2014Open access
Adrienne Stevens, Larissa Shamseer, Erica J Weinstein, Fatemeh Yazdi, Lorinda Turner, J. Thielman
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The completeness of reporting of only nine of 101 health research reporting guidelines (excluding CONSORT) has been evaluated in relation to journals’ endorsement, and insufficient evidence exists to determine the relation between journals' endorsement of reporting guidelines and the completenessOf reporting of published health research reports.
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Adherence to these recommendations will provide the readership of clinical trials with more details of important outcomes, while the higher level of homogeneity may facilitate the comparison of outcomes across different trials and pooling of trial results, such as in meta-analyses.
Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and StrabismusPreschool vision screening: what should we be detecting and how should we report it? Uniform guidelines for reporting results of preschool vision screening studies
218 Citations2003Sean P. Donahue, Robert W. Arnold +1 more
The introduction of these new techniques for preschool vision screening has produced an interest in comparing these techniques with traditional vision screening, but clear interpretation of these comparisons is clouded by a lack of a uniform and consistent definition of amblyopia risk factors.
Complementary Therapies in MedicineStandards for reporting interventions in controlled trials of acupuncture: the STRICTA recommendations
216 Citations2001Hugh MacPherson, Adrian White +4 more
An international group of experienced acupuncturists and researchers devised a set of recommendations, designating them STRICTA: STandards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture, acting as an extension of the CONSORT guidelines for the specific requirements of acupuncture studies.
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