EQUATOR Blog
23/10/2014 Ginny Barbour: I’ve Got a (lot of) Little (check)listsPLOS Medicine Editorial Director, Virginia Barbour, reflects on the publication of the CONSORT and PRISMA guidelines and reminds us of the importance of checklists to medical publishing. This blog was originally published as one of eight in PLOS Medicine’s 10th Anniversary blog series on the most […]
12/08/2014 B.J. Visser: How much money do we waste on research?It has been claimed that 85% of biomedical research is wasted because of inadequate production and reporting of research. This implies a considerable financial loss for society and industry
03/07/2014 E. Wager: Why aren’t researchers told about reporting guidelines?Liz Wager reflects on a recent talk that she gave to postgraduate students at a careers day for biomedical researchers considering working in medical communications
02/06/2014 D. Bishop: Data sharing: not easy but ultimately essentialProfessor Dorothy Bishop shares her own experience of sharing her research data. She finds that despite making a great effort to be accurate error is inevitable and unavoidable in science, however careful you try to be. The best way to flush out these errors is to make the data publicly available.
28/02/2014 S. Kirtley: Can librarians contribute to increasing value and reducing waste in medical research?The recently published Lancet series on waste in biomedical research provides a fascinating and thought provoking glimpse into the complex world of medical research and the myriad of issues that can disrupt completion and use of high quality research
20/12/2013 D. Riley: The CARE guidelinesWe created a consensus-based set of reporting guidelines for case reports to increase the quality of reporting from patient encounters and lead into a systematic data collection effort
26/11/2013 P. McCulloch: The IDEAL CollaborationThe IDEAL framework outlines a realistic view of how surgical interventions, medical devices and other complex interventions actually develop in practice. Evaluation needs to recognise these stages of development, and both reporting standards and methodology need to be tailored
20/03/2013 T.A. Lang & D.G. Altman: Introducing the SAMPL guidelinesThe SAMPL Guidelines provide a set of statistical reporting guidelines suitable for medical journals to include in their Instructions for Authors. The guidelines tell authors, journal editors, and reviewers how to report basic statistical methods and results