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Reporting guidelines under development
The following guidelines are currently being developed:
The SPIRIT initiative (Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials) aims to produce evidence-based recommendations for key information to include in a trial protocol
- The SPIRIT initiative: Defining Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials. Executive summary (August 2011)
- Read the BMJ blog about the third SPIRIT meeting held on 2 October 2010
- Strengthening the credibility of clinical research .The Lancet 2010;375: 1225. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60523-5 (Read the editorial)
- Chan, A-W; Tetzlaff, J; Altman, DG; Gotzsche, PC; Hrobjartsson, A, et al. The SPIRIT initiative: Defining Standard Protocol Items for Randomized Trials [conference abstract] German J Evid Quality Health Care (suppl). 2008;102:S27
- Contact: An-Wen Chan, Chair of the SPIRIT initiative, anwen.chan@utoronto.ca
Guidelines for reporting the impact of patient and public involvement in research: Strengthening the evidence base of patient and public involvement
- Read the project summary (December 2010)
- Contact Dr Sophie Staniszewska: Sophie.staniszewska@warwick.ac.uk
Guidelines for the reporting of prognostic (risk prediction) models
- Contact Dr Gary Collins: gary.collins@csm.ox.ac.uk
- Read the BMJ blog about the guideline development meeting held in Oxford in June 2011
WIDER recommendations for reporting of behaviour change interventions
- Website: http://interventiondesign.co.uk/?page_id=9
- Contact: Charles Abraham, s.c.s.abraham@sussex.ac.uk
Guidelines for reporting biomedical images in scientific journals
- Lang, T. How to Document Biomedical Images for Publication (pdf)
- Contact: Tom Lang, tomlangcom@aol.com
- See also EQUATOR discussion forum - 'Developing Reporting Guidelines'
REporting Manualised INterventions for Dissemination and Evaluation (REMINDE) Statement
- Website: http://www.researchintorecovery.com/
- Contact: Dr Mike Slade, m.slade@iop.kcl.ac.uk
CONSORT extension for reporting of health related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes from trials
- Contact Melanie Calvert: consortqol@contacts.bham.ac.uk
- Read the BMJ blog about the HRQoL extension
- Read the comment published in the Lancet: PMID 22078674
CONSORT extension for reporting randomised controlled trials of social interventions
- Website: http://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/research/centre-for-evidence-based-intervention/consort-study.html
- Contact: CONSORT.study@spi.ox.ac.uk
Please let us know about relevant projects; it will avoid duplication of the process and might also help you to find new collaborators.
Page last edited: 07 December 2011
