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TIDieR-Placebo : a guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls

Reporting guideline provided for?
(i.e. exactly what the authors state in the paper)
Reporting placebo or sham interventions.
Full bibliographic reference Howick J, Webster RK, Rees J, Turner R, Macdonald H, 1. Price A, Evers WMA, Bishop FL, Collins GS, Bokelmann K, Hopewell S, Knottnerus A, Lamb S, Madigan C, Napadow V, Papanikitas A, Hoffmann T. TIDieR-Placebo: a guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls. PLoS Med. 2020;17(9):e1003294.
Language English
PubMed ID 32956344
Relevant URLs
(full-text if available)
The full-text of the TIDieR-Placebo reporting guideline can be accessed at: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003294
Relevant more generic / specialised reporting guidelines
(i.e. main generic guideline or extension to a generic guideline)
Generic
TIDieR: Hoffmann T, Glasziou P, Boutron I, Milne R, Perera R, Moher D, Altman D, Barbour V, Macdonald H, Johnston M, Lamb S, Dixon-Woods M, McCulloch P, Wyatt J, Chan A, Michie S. Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide. BMJ. 2014;348:g1687. PMID: 24609605

Specialisd
TIDieR-PHP: Campbell M, Katikireddi SV, Hoffmann T, Armstrong R, Waters E, Craig P. TIDieR-PHP: a reporting guideline for population health and policy interventions. BMJ. 2018;361:k1079. PMID: 29769210

 
Reporting guideline website URL http://www.tidierguide.org/
Reporting guideline acronym TIDieR-Placebo
Study design Clinical trials, Experimental studies, Observational studies, Study protocols, Systematic reviews/Meta-analyses/Reviews/HTA/Overviews
Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report? Intervention (exposure)
Additional information Read the TIDieR Placebo Protocol (PDF).

Read a background paper: Howick J, Hoffmann T. How placebo characteristics can influence estimates of intervention effects in trials. CMAJ. 2018;190(30):E908-E911. PMID: 30061325

 
Record last updated on September 8, 2021

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