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Recently published STRICTA guidelines (Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture) present revised recommendations of the guidance published in 2001. The current guidance, which replaces the previous recommendations, has been developed in collaboration with the CONSORT group to ensure complementarity of these two guidelines.

The STRICTA website provides guideline checklist with explanation of the individual recommendations and a large number of examples of how to report required information, links to full text guideline papers, and other helpful information for researchers wishing to use STRICTA or journals wishing to endorse the guidance.


References:

MacPherson H, Altman DG, Hammerschlag R, Youping L, Taixiang W, White A, Moher D; STRICTA Revision Group. Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): extending the CONSORT statement.
PLoS Med. 2010 Jun 8;7(6):e1000261. PMID: 20543992

Hopewell S. Standards to improve the reporting of clinical trials in acupuncture. Acupunct Med 2010 Jun;28(2):63. PMID: 20615857