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Reporting guidelines gain a global platform
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Dr Iveta Simera of the EQUATOR UK Centre joined the Global Health Trials Programme’s Writing and Publication Skills Month, explaining how reporting guidelines help to create excellent research papers that can make a difference. Read the full news story on […]
11/11/2015 New reporting guidelines added to the EQUATOR database of reporting guidelines59 newly identified reporting guidelines have been added to the EQUATOR database of reporting guidelines over the past few months
28/10/2015 STARD 2015 update for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies publishedThe STARD group have just published an update to the STARD guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies
09/10/2015 A history of the evolution of guidelines for reporting medical research: the long road to the EQUATOR NetworkThe James Lind Library has recently published an article on the history of the evolution of guidelines for reporting medical research: the long road to the EQUATOR Network.
08/10/2015 Publications Officer hired to serve the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)Dr. David Moher and Prof. Doug Altman recently called for the introduction of academic institutional Publications Officers. The Publications Officer role was conceived to provide support to trainees, staff and researchers at the back end of research
05/10/2015 Paper on selective reporting bias wins Cochrane Bill Silverman prizeThe Cochrane Bill Silverman prize was awarded today to the authors of a paper which investigated the selective reporting bias of harm outcomes within studies
23/09/2015 Four Proposals to Help Improve the Medical Research LiteratureIn an essay published in PLOS Medicine on 22 September 2015, EQUATOR’s David Moher and Doug Altman discuss four actions which journals and educational institutions could take to increase the value of research articles. Publications officers for universities and research […]
11/08/2015 Good Publication Practice for communicating company-sponsored medical research: GPP3The updated Good Publication Practice guideline (GPP3, replacing GPP2) has been published by the Annals of Internal Medicine. The guideline focuses on the publication of company-sponsored medical research; however, the principles of GPP3 apply to all research and will be […]
11/08/2015 Fewer large clinical trials are reporting positive findings since the introduction of measures designed to improve transparencyKaplan and Irwin analysed all large NHLBI supported RCTs between 1970 and 2012 evaluating drugs or dietary supplements for the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease. Trials were included if direct costs >$500,000/year, participants were adult humans, and the primary […]
08/07/2015 British Journal of Dermatology publishes a position statementThe British Journal of Dermatology has recently published an editorial summarising some of the thoughts expressed in a series of 14 invited editorials published to mark