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Other reporting guidelines
| Reporting guidance provided for: | Name of guideline website (where available) | References including PMID |
|---|---|---|
| Quality of life assessed in clinical trials | Staquet M, Berzon R, Osoba D, Machin D. Guidelines for reporting
results of quality of life assessments in clinical trials. QUAL LIFE
RES 1996; 5(5):496-502. PMID: 8973129 |
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| Quality of life in cancer clinical trials | Lee CW, Chi KN. The standard of reporting of health-related quality of life in clinical cancer trials. J Clin Epidemiol 2000; 53(5):451-458. PMID: 10812316 | |
| Clinical guidelines | COGS |
Shiffman RN, Shekelle P, Overhage JM, Slutsky J, Grimshaw J, Deshpande
AM. Standardized reporting of clinical practice guidelines: a proposal
from the Conference on Guideline Standardization. Ann Intern Med 2003;
139(6):493-498. PMID: 13679327 |
| Anecdotes of suspected drug adverse reactions |
|
Aronson JK. Anecdotes as evidence. BMJ 2003; 326(7403):1346. PMID: 12816800 |
|
Adverse event reports |
Kelly WN, Arellano FM, Barnes J, Bergman U, Edwards RI, Fernandez AM,
et al. Guidelines for submitting adverse event reports for publication.
Drug Saf 2007;30(5):367-73. PMID: 17472416 Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2007;16(5):581-7. PMID: 17471601 |
|
| Adverse event reports - traditional Chinese medicine |
|
Wu T, Shang H, Bian Z, Zhang J, Li T, Li Y, Zhang B. Recommendations for reporting adverse drug reactions and adverse events of traditional Chinese medicine. J Evid Based Med. 2010; 3(1):11-7. PMID: 21349035 |
|
Good publication practice for pharmaceutical companies |
Graf C, Battisti WP, Bridges D, Bruce-Winkler V, Conaty JM, Ellison JM, Field EA, Gurr JA, Marx ME, Patel M, Sanes-Miller C, Yarker YE, and for the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals. Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research: the GPP2 guidelines. BMJ 2009; 339: b4330. PMID: 19946142 GPP2 replace GPP [Wager et al. 2003; PMID: 128147] |
|
| Industry-sponsored research: best practices in manuscript preparation and submission |
|
Chipperfield L, Citrome L, Clark J, David FS, Enck R, Evangelista M, Gonzalez J, Groves T, Magrann J, Mansi B, Miller C, Mooney LA, Murphy A, Shelton J, Walson PD, Weigel A. Authors' Submission Toolkit: a practical guide to getting your research published. Curr Med Res Opin. 2010;26(8):1967-82. PMID: 20569069 |
| Team based learning in medical education |
|
Haidet P, Levine RE, Parmelee DX, Crow S, Kennedy F, Kelly PA, Perkowski L, Michaelsen L, Richards BF. Perspective: Guidelines for reporting team-based learning activities in the medical and health sciences education literature. Acad Med. 2012;87(3):292-9. PMID: 22373620 |
|
Evaluation studies in Health Informatics |
STARE-HI | Talmon
J, Ammenwerth E, Brender J, de Keizer N, Nykanen P, Rigby M.
STARE-HI - Statement on reporting of evaluation studies in Health
Informatics. Int J Med Inform 2009 Jan;78(1):1-9. PMID: 18930696 |
| |
STARE-HI Conference papers |
de Keizer NF, Talmon J, Ammenwerth E, Brender J, Rigby M, Nykanen P. Systematic prioritization of the STARE-HI reporting items. An application to short conference papers on health informatics evaluation. Methods Inf Med. 2012;51(2):104-11. PMID: 21373719 |
| Validation studies of health administrative data |
|
Benchimol EI, Manuel DG, To T, Griffiths AM, Rabeneck L, Guttmann A. Development and use of reporting guidelines for assessing the quality of validation studies of health administrative data. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011; 64(8):821-9. PMID: 21194889 |
|
Standardised patient research reports in the medical education literature |
Howley L, Szauter K, Perkowski L, Clifton M, McNaughton N. Quality of standardised patient research reports in the medical education literature: review and recommendations. Med Educ 2008 Apr;42(4):350-8. PMID: 18298448 |
|
| Objective structured clinical examination |
|
Patricio M, Juliao M, Fareleira F, Young M, Norman G, Vaz CA. A comprehensive checklist for reporting the use of OSCEs. Med Teach 2009;31(2):112-24. PMID: 19330670 |
| Participatory action research |
|
Smith L, Rosenzweig L, Schmidt M. Best practices in the reporting of participatory action research: Embracing both the forest and the trees. The Counselling Psychologist 2010; 38(8): 1115-38. |
| Patient and public involvement in research |
|
Staniszewska S, Brett J, Mockford C, Barber R. The GRIPP checklist: strengthening the quality of patient and public involvement reporting in research. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2011;27(4):391-9. PMID: 22004782 |
|
Adjudication committees in clinical trials |
Dechartres A, Boutron I, Roy C, Ravaud P. Inadequate planning and reporting of adjudication committees in clinical trials: recommendation proposal. J Clin Epidemiol 2009 Jul;62(7):695-702. PMID: 19135860 |
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| Data monitoring committees in paediatric trials |
|
Fernandes RM, van der Lee JH, Offringa M. A systematic review of the reporting of Data Monitoring Committees' roles, interim analysis and early termination in pediatric clinical trials. BMC Pediatr 2009; 9:77. PMID: 20003383 |
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