Guidelines for Reporting Health Research

Matthias Egger is professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Bern in Switzerland, as well as professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

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