Guidance for reporting specific sections of research reports

Reporting guidance provided for: Name of guideline website (where available) References including PMID
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

Figures, Graphs
Pocock SJ, Travison TG, Wruck LM. Figures in clinical trial reports: current practice & scope for improvement. Trials 2007; 8:36.
PMID: 18021449


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
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

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
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
Discussion
Docherty M, Smith R. The case for structuring the discussion of scientific papers. BMJ 1999; 318(7193):1224-1225.
PMID: 10231230
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
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

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/

Conflict of interest




ICMJE: Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests in ICMJE Journals. Updated July 2010
Editorial: http://www.icmje.org/updated_coi.pdf
Disclosure form: http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf

WAME Conflict of Interest Policy
Statement. March 2009
http://www.wame.org/conflict-of-interest-in-peer-reviewed-medical-journals

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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