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Guidance for reporting specific sections of research reports
| Reporting guidance provided for: | Name of guideline website (where available) | References including PMID |
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| Literature searches | STARLITE | Booth A. "Brimful of STARLITE": toward standards for reporting literature searches. J Med Libr Assoc 2006; 94(4):421-9, e205. PMID: 17082834 |
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Figures, Graphs |
Pocock SJ, Travison TG, Wruck LM. Figures in clinical trial reports: current practice & scope for improvement. Trials 2007; 8:36. PMID: 18021449 |
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| Puhan MA, ter RG, Eichler K, Steurer J, Bachmann LM. More medical journals should inform their contributors about three key principles of graph construction. J Clin Epidemiol 2006 Oct;59(10):1017-22. PMID: 16980140 |
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| Bayesian analyses of health care evaluations | BayesWatch | Spiegelhalter DJ, Myles JP, Jones DR, Abrams KR. Bayesian methods in health technology assessment: a review. Health Technol Assess 2000; 4(38):1-130. |
| Bayesian analysis in clinical studies | ROBUST | Sung L, Hayden J, Greenberg ML, Koren G, Feldman BM, Tomlinson GA. Seven items were identified for inclusion when reporting a Bayesian analysis of a clinical study. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(3):261-268. PMID: 15718115 |
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Subgroup analysis in trials |
Wang R, Lagakos SW, Ware JH, Hunter DJ, Drazen JM. Statistics in medicine--reporting of subgroup analyses in clinical trials. N Engl J Med 2007 Nov 22;357(21):2189-94. PMID: 18032770 |
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| Missing data in epidemiological and clinical research |
Sterne JA, White IR, Carlin JB, Spratt M, Royston P, Kenward MG, et al. Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research: potential and pitfalls. BMJ 2009;338:b2393. PMID: 19564179 |
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| Discussion | Docherty M, Smith R. The case for structuring the discussion of scientific papers. BMJ 1999; 318(7193):1224-1225. PMID: 10231230 |
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| Narrative sections of study reports | Schriger DL. Suggestions for improving the reporting of clinical research: the role of narrative. Ann Emerg Med 2005; 45(4):437-443. PMID: 15795727 |
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| Research recommendations | Brown P, Brunnhuber K, Chalkidou K, Chalmers I, Clarke M, Fenton M, Forbes C, Glanville J, Hicks NJ, Moody J, Twaddle S, Timimi H, Young P. How to formulate research recommendations. BMJ 2006; 333(7572): 804-806. PMID: 17038740 |
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Acknowledgement of funders (UK) |
Research Information Network. Acknowledgement of Funders in Scholarly Journal Articles. Guidance for UK Research Funders, Authors and Publishers. RIN 2008. http://www.rin.ac.uk/ |
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Conflict of interest |
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ICMJE: Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests in ICMJE Journals. October 2009 WAME Conflict of Interest Policy Rothman DJ, McDonald WJ, Berkowitz CD, Chimonas SC, DeAngelis CD, Hale RW, et al. Professional medical associations and their relationships with industry: a proposal for controlling conflict of interest. JAMA 2009 Apr 1;301(13):1367-72. |
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