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A CONSORT extension for reporting Pragmatic and Explanatory trials designed using the PRECIS tool (CONSORT-PRECIS)
2026
A reporting guideline for artificial intelligence-enabled simulation-based eductianl interventions in health professions education (RAISE-HPE)
2026
A reporting guideline for research into outcomes following release from correctional and forensic settings
2026
A reporting guideline for the use of artificial intelligence in legal research: reporting standards for legal research in which generative artificial intelligence or large language models are used (RAILS)
2026
A reporting tool for evidence-based guidelines on Chinese medicine for public health emergencies: an extension of the RIGHT statement
2023
AD ASTRA – SPIRIT and CONSORT extensions for dog-assisted interventions
2024
AD-DELTA2: Guideline on the reporting of sample size in trial grant applications and protocols for adaptive design: an extension of the DELTA2 guideline
2025
AE-ACU – Reporting guidelines for Adverse Events in ACUpuncture clinical trials
2024
AI4HM: A Protocol Template for Observational Studies Involving Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Health and Medicine
2026
APOSTEL-AS - Advised Protocol for Optical coherence tomography (OCT) Study Terminology and Elements - extension for studies involving Anterior Segment OCT
2023
APT-SAP: Enhancing the design, conduct and analysis of Adaptive and Platform Trials through consensus-driven Statistical Analysis Plan guidance
2025
ARRIVE for Acupuncture – An extension of the ARRIVE Statement for Animal Research on Acupuncture
2018
Alberta Quality Assessment Tool for Human Evaluation Studies of Large Language Model (LLM)-Based Question-Answering (QA) Systems: Reporting Checklist
2025
BEST-CHMF – BEtter reporting of Safety assessment in clinical Trials with Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas
2024
BRIDGE-AI reporting guideline for cross-design evaluation studies of artificial intelligence in digital health diagnosis, clinical decision support, and post-deployment monitoring.
2026
Blinding in Acupuncture Clinical Trials: guidelines for assessment and reporting
2024
26 November 2024
CANGARU - ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence Natural Large Language Models for Accountable Reporting and Use Guidelines
2023
CARITS - Complete and Accurate Reporting of Interrupted Time Series studies
2023
CAST-D - Reporting Guideline for Case Study in Public Health and Medicine related to Disasters
2024
CGM-REPORT: A Reporting Guideline for Studies Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Individuals Without Diabetes
2026
CHAT-GUIDE: Reporting the Use of ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Large Language Models) in Healthcare Research and Practice
2026
CHEERS ClimatE - Consolidated Health economic evaluation reporting standards Climate Extended
2023
CHEERS extension for the reporting of economic evaluations of infectious disease interventions utilising epidemiological and dynamic transmission modelling (CHEERS-ID)
2026
CINEX - a reporting guideline for clinical information extraction studies
2024
CLARITY: CheckList for Agentic Reasoning and InTelligence in Healthcare. A reporting guideline for studies that develop, evaluate or deploy agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems in healthcare
2026
COMET-Bib: Comprehensive Methodological Transparency for Bibliometric Studies
2026
CONSENS - Recommendations for improving reporting of CONtextual analySis in implEmeNtation Science
2052
CONSORT Extension for Herbal Harms Reporting
2024
CONSORT Extension for Multicenter Clinical Trials 2020: Recommendations, Explanation, and Elaboration
2018
9 January 2024
CONSORT Extension for TCM Pattern-Guided Same Treatment for Different Diseases Randomized Controlled Trials: the CONSORT-TCM Pattern Statement
2026
CONSORT Social Work – Reporting Guideline for Social Work intervention trials: CONSORT Extension
2024
CONSORT and SPIRIT Extension for Decentralized Clinical Trials (CONSORT-DCT & SPIRIT-DCT)
2026
CONSORT and SPIRIT extensions for non-inferiority and equivalence trials
2025
CONSORT-A 2026: Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials for Acupuncture 2026
2025
CONSORT-CHI: An extension of the CONSORT reporting guideline for Controlled Human Infection studies
2025
CONSORT-Herbal 2026: CONSORT Herbal 2026 Statement: updated guideline for reporting randomised trials of medicinal plant extracts and natural products as active ingredients and finished products.
2025
CORE: Community Engaged Research Reporting Guidelines
2025
COREMILK: COnsensus Guidelines for REsearch on Human MILK
2025
COREQ-LLM: Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research + Large Language Model Extension
2025
CORES - CO-creation REporting Standards for research
2023
CORMMIX - Consolidated Checklist for Reporting Mixed-Methods Research
2023
CORTRE: COmplete Reporting for Transparency Reproducibility Efforts
2025
CRCA&M - Consensus-Based Recommendations for Case Report in Acupuncture and Moxibustion
2022
CRIMP - Case Reports in Mental Health and Psychiatry Reporting Guidelines
2024
CheRIHoSS - Checklist of Reporting Items for Horizon Scanning Studies
2025
Checklist for Reporting Valuation Studies of Multi-Attribute Utility-Based Instruments – Collaborative Involvement
2026
Checklist for Reporting of Sample Size Determination in Randomized Controlled Trials (CROSS-RCT)
2026
Checklist for the conduct and reporting of micro-costing studies in health care
2014
2019 and 2021
Chinese Medicine Formulas - STrengthening the Reporting of Observational Real-World Studies about Chinese Medicine Formulas: STROBE extension
2023
Chinese Medicine Formulas Protocols - Standard Protocol Items for Observational Real-World Studies about Chinese Medicine Formulas
2023
Community of Practice Reporting Guide for Practice and Research
2026
Congressionally Mandated Reporting Guidelines: Enhancing Transparency and Clarity for Policy Reporting and Dissemination (CMR guidelines)
2026
Consensus for APP Review Reporting Items (CAPPRRI)
2023
25 April 2024; 7 February 2025
Consolidated Guidelines for Reporting and Evaluation of studies using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation
2025
Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards for Screening Studies (CHEERS-SCREEN)
2025
Consolidated reporting items for REal World Study (CREWS)
2019
Construction of Individualized Clinical Decision Model for Single Disease with Benefit-Risk-Cost Analysis and Priority Reporting List (BEST-CDM)
2026
DICE Checklist: a reporting guideline for strengthening diversity, inclusion, culture, and equity considerations within musculoskeletal research
2026
DOSSIER (Documentation Of Synthetic health data: Standard Items for Evaluation and Reporting), a reporting guideline for studies that generate, use or evaluate synthetic health data
2026
DeNote - A data note reporting guideline for qualitative health and social care research datasets
2024
ECoHealth - Reporting Guideline for Assessments of the Environmental Consequences of Healthcare
2023
ENLIGHT – ICU reporting checklist
2026
ENLIGHT-Field: Field research extension of the ENLIGHT Checklist and Guidelines for daylight, electric and mixed field research
2024
EPIC - Enhanced Prevalence and Incidence Criteria
2023
Endoscopic Endonasal Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumor (PitNET) Reporting Guideline: a reporting guideline for clinical and surgical outcomes of endoscopic endonasal surgery for PitNET
2026
Evidence-Based Practice Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation Reporting Guidelines
2026
FAIR – Fidelity to Acupuncture Intervention Reporting
2024
FAIR Omics Reporting for Meta-Analysis
2026
GLOBAL - Guidance List for the repOrting of Bibliometric AnaLyses
2022
GRACE - Guidelines for the Reporting of A Clinical Electroencephalogram (EEG) in the medical literature
2023
GRAMMS 2.0: Updating the good reporting of mixed methods study reporting guidelines
2025
GRRAS-COSMIN: Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement Studies-Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments
2025
GUIDE-AI - Reporting Checklist on the use of Artificial Inteligence in the Health Guideline Enterprise
2024
GUIDE-Rehab - GUideline for Intervention DEscription in Rehabilitation
2024
Guidance for Reporting Involvement of Patients and the Public 2 – Youth Extension (GRIPP2-Y)
2026
Guideline for Reporting Environmental Epidemiology aNalyses (GREEN)
2016
2 November 2021
Guidelines On Assessments in LMIC Settings (GOALS)
2018
Guidelines foR Evaluating the ENvironmental impacts of CARE pathways in healthcare (GREEN CARE) reporting guideline
2026
Guidelines for Reporting Clinical Trials on Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine
2023
9 January 2024
Guidelines for Reporting Single Group Trial for traditional Chinese medicine with Objective Performance Criteria or Performance Goal
2022
Guidelines for cellular and molecular pathology content in clinical trial protocols: the SPIRIT-Path extension update and remapping 2026
2026
Guidelines for ethical review of acupuncture and moxibustion clinical research
2026
HOTTER: Heat therapy: Optimising Transparency Through Essential Reporting
2026
IMPACT Framework - Reporting the impact of patient and caregiver involvement in health research
2025
INCREASE - Increasing transparency and Reproducibility of data Extraction for evidence Synthesis research
2023
INVIRTUE - Reporting Guidelines for Virtual Reality Intervention Studies
2024
Inclusivity Checklist for Clinical Research
2025
Informed Methodology for Publishing Advocacy Change and Transformation
2026
LEVERAGE - GuideLines for rEporting the deVelopment, dEliveRy and evAluation of health interventions/policies Guided by commonly used systEms approaches
2025
LIGHTS–LAMPES: a two-level reporting guideline for clinical, laboratory and pre-clinical studies of therapeutic light-based and laser interventions in photomedicine
2026
MARMAR-Guidelines for the measurement, analysis, and reporting of medication adherence in the run-in phase of clinical trials
2025
MEASURE Statement - Medical Education Assessment Studies Uniform REporting statement - A reporting guideline for validity investigation studies
2020
META-TTE - Transparent reporting of meta-analyses of time-to-event outcomes based on aggregate data from randomised trials of interventions
2023
Medical Media Quality Reporting Guide
2026
Minimum standards for content and format of meta-data and data reporting in systematic reviews
2020
MuRMuR-AI - MultiReader Multicase Reporting (MuRMuR) Guidelines, including AI-Assisted Image Interpretation
2025
NUR-Case - Nursing Case Reporting Framework
2025
OPTIMISE-AR (incOrporating PaTIent-reported outcoMes In doSE-finding oncology trials – Analysis Recommendations)
2025
ORIOCE - Guidelines for transparent reporting of Outbreak Reports and Intervention Of Community Epidemics
2023
Orthopaedic CAse REport Reporting Guideline
2026
PHENOMOVE: Phenotyping standards for reporting signs and symptoms in movement disorders
2026
PLOT (Protocol Lab for Online Trials)
2019
POCUS-REPORT: Reporting Guideline for Clinical and Research Studies Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
2025
POCUS-REPORT: The REporting a Time-to-onset Anaysis using Individual Case Safety reports in PharmacoVigilance
2025
PRECISE - The Preferred Components for Co-design in Research
2023
PREHOSPITAL-CARE: A consensus-based guideline for publishing pre-hospital case reports
2018
PRINMA-A — Preferred Reporting Items for Network Meta-Analysis of Acupuncture Statement
2023
PRISMA Extension for Systematic Reviews Using GRADE
2023
PRISMA for NMA update - Updating PRISMA for Network meta-analysis
2024
PRISMA-AI - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - Artificial Intelligence Extension
2022
PRISMA-EE - PRISMA guideline extension for systematic reviews of health economic evaluations
2024
PRISMA-EGMs - PRISMA-Evidence and Gap Maps
2023
PRISMA-P Update - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols
2024
PRISMA-PF - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis of Prognostic Factor Studies
2024
PRISMA-QES - PRISMA Extension for Qualitative Evidence Syntheses
2022
PRISMA-RR: an extension to PRISMA for rapid reviews
2015
June 2024
PRISMA-ScR update - Updating the PRISMA reporting guideline for scoping reviews: study protocol
2024
PRISMA-prev - Extension of PRISMA 2020 for systematic reviews of prevalence
2023
PRISMA-probiotics: Extension for probiotics
2025
PRISTINE: Preferred Reporting Items for Syntheses Through Interactive, Navigable Evidence-portals
2025
PRITEM - Preferred Reporting Items for Evidence Mapping
2022
PRITERS - Preferred Reporting Items for Replication of Systematic Reviews
2025
PROM-GRIP - Patient-Reported Outcome Measures - Guideline for Reporting In clinical Practice
2024
PRe-EquiP-LMICs - Guidelines for conducting and reporting global, participatory research in Pulmonary Rehabilitation to promote Equitable Participation from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
2025
PhyCaRe - Reporting guideline for physiotherapy case reports
2022
Preferred Reporting Items for Measuring Exercise-induced hypoalgesia (EIH-PRIME)
2026
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - Artificial Intelligence as Method (PRISMA-AIM): a reporting guideline for AI use in systematic reviews
2026
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses - PRISMA Extension of Preclinical In Vivo Animal Experiments
2020
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis - Protocols for Children (PRISMA-PC)
2014
14 June 2022; 20 November 2024
Psychological self-Report Instruments in Databases: the PRIDE Reporting Guideline
2026
QRDC-RG - Qualitative Remote Data Collection Reporting Guideline
2025
QUality standards for reporting In Tobacco-intervention studies (QUIT)
2026
RCTRaCk – Randomized Controlled Trials in Rehabilitation Checklist
2019
RECONSIDER – Reporting extension of CONSORT and SPIRIT for Inclusion, Diversity, Ethnicity and Race
2022
REFORH: REporting guideline For ORganoids in Human clinical studies
2026
REFORM - REporting guideline For Organoids pRe-clinical experiMents
2025
REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected health Data (RECORD): updated reporting guideline for observational studies using routinely collected health data
2026
RGAR-TCM - Reporting Guideline for Animal Research in the Field of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2023
RIGHT 2.0: Reporting Items for practice Guidelines in HealThcare
2026
RIGHT-MuSE: Reporting guidance for interest-holder engagement in practice guidelines
2025
ReFiND – checklist and recommendations for evaluating and Reporting Fidelity of Non-Drug interventions
2023
ReRT-REPORT: A cross-design reporting guideline for reirradiation studies
2026
RepOrting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES): an update to reporting standards for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and systematic maps in environmental sciences
2026
Reporting Elements for Foundation Models in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (REFORM-GIE)
2026
Reporting Guideline for Clinical Practice Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy: An Extension of the RIGHT Statement
2024
Reporting Guideline for Environmental Outcomes in Clinical Trials: CONSORT Extension
2024
Reporting Guideline for Environmental Outcomes in Clinical Trials: SPIRIT Extension
2024
Reporting Guideline for Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) Therapy
2021
Reporting Guideline for the Participatory Development & Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions
2025
Reporting Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Research in Mental Health
2024
Reporting Guidelines for Case Series Studies
2026
Reporting Guidelines for Organoid-Based Clinical Trials: An Extension of the CONSORT Statement
2025
Reporting Guidelines for Pathology in Randomised Controlled Trials (CONSORT-Path)
2020
Reporting Guidelines for Peer-Review Publication of Community-Engaged Research (CEnR)
2026
Reporting Guidelines for drug utilization and pharmacoepidemiological studies using the WHO ATC/DDD methodoloogy: the EMMA checklist
2026
Reporting Items for Evidence Summary
2025
Reporting checklist for systematic review of clinical practice guidelines: a RIGHT extension statement
2025
Reporting guidelines for artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) interventions in nursing research – twin reporting checklists (one for AI, one for XR) with a shared explanation-and-elaboration document (DEFINE)
2026
Research reporting guidelines for health RESearch involving People who arE inCarceraTed: The RESPECT Guidelines
2025
SAPI - Statistical Analysis Plan for Observational Studies with Initial Data Analysis
2024
SAPs for CRTs – Guidelines for the Content of Statistical Analysis Plans for Cluster Randomised Trials
2023
SEB - Standards for EEG Biomarkers
2023
SESAME - Standard Elements in Studies of Adverse events and Medical Error
2023
SHIME - Standards for Healthcare Impact Evaluation
2025
SIM-TRAIN REPORT: Reporting Guideline for Simulation-Based Training, Education and Research in Medical and Health Care
2026
SPARK - Scale Up Research Reporting Checklist
2024
SPIRIT extension for reporting Pragmatic and Explanatory trial protocols designed using the PRECIS tool (SPIRIT-PRECIS)
2026
SPIRIT-A 2026: (Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials) for Acupuncture 2026
2025
SPIRIT-MCT - SPIRIT Extension for Multicenter Clinical Trials
2022
9 January 2024
SPIRIT-ROUTINE - for protocols of trials using cohorts and routinely collected data
2021
SPRINT: Standards for Presenting and Reporting clinical InterveNtions Televisually
2023
SPoRTIER: Social Prescribing Reporting Template to Improve Evaluation and Replication
2018
SSG-REPORT: Reporting guideline for acute and longitudinal small-sided games studies in team sports research
2026
STAR-MBMA - Standards for Transparent and Accurate Reporting of Model-Based Meta-Analyses - General Guideline
2024
STARD-NBS - Standardized Reporting of Newborn Screening Outcomes
2023
START-EDI - STAndards for ReporTing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
2024
STEMGEN Checklist Design for Stem Cell Differentiation and Genetic Engineering Studies
2026
STLER: Standards for Legal Epidemiology Reporting
2025
STRICTA Ⅲ – The Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture
2025
STRIMAM - STandards for Reporting Interventions in Moxibustion using Animal Models
2023
STROBE for TCM - Reporting Guideline for observational studies on Traditional Chinese Medicine (formerly Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas)
2019
STROBE-D: Strengthening the Reporting og Observational Studies in Epidemiology for Drowning (STROBE-D): An extension of the STROBE statement for drowning research
2025
STROBE-MetEpi - Guidelines for Strengthening the Reporting of Metabolomic Epidemiology Studies
2021
STROBE-Vision - an extension of the STROBE statement
2021
STROBE-pregnancy outcomes
2020
STROBE-prev - Strengthening the Reporting of Studies of Prevalence
2023
SUMO-cross - Reporting cross-sectional SUrveys conducted in Multiple cOntexts (SUMO-cross)
2024
SWAP-AI: A Reporting Guideline for Scientific Web Applications and Platforms Built with Artificial Intelligence
2026
Sex and Gender Reporting Guidelines in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (SGR-TCM)
2026
StaRLiF: Standards for reporting the development and validation of literature search filters
2025
Standardised Reporting of the Carbon Footprint of Clinical Pathways
2024
Standardised frameworks to design and report anaesthesia interventions in clinical trials
2023
Standardized Protocol Items: Recommendations for Observational Studies (SPIROS)
2017
Standardizing surgical Interventions & Co-interventions; establishing quality assurance for surgical interventions in randomised controlled trials (STItCh-IT)
2016
November 2021
Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Bloodletting (STRICTOB): extending the CONSORT statement
2026
Standards for Reporting of Digital Health Education Intervention Trials (STEDI)
2017
Standards for Transparent And complete reporting of Games in medical Education (STAGE)
2026
Standards for Transparent reporting of Oral Health-Related Quality of life studies (STORQ)
2026
Standards for reporting disaster health research and field operations (STARDIS)
2026
Standards for transparent reporting of aligner treatment studies (STRAND)
2026
Standards for transparent reporting of dental implant studies (STRIDE):
2026
Standards of Reporting the Network Pharmacology of Chinese Medicine
2026
Standards of reporting for studies on medical grade footwear for adults
2025
Survey Aware Machine Learning (SaML) Statement: Reporting Items for Machine Learning Studies Using Complex Sample Survey Data
2026
TAE-ACU - The Terminology criteria of Adverse Events for ACUpuncture
2024
TARGET-TCM: a reporting guideline extension of the TARGET Statement for traditional Chinese medicine
2026
THESES-M: Transparent and Holistic Evaluation Standards for Educational Studies in Medicine: A reporting guideline for medical theses
2025
TIDIER-A 2026: TIDieR extension for acupuncture: Template for Acupuncture Intervention Description and Replication
2025
TIDieR‑aqua: Template for the Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) for reporting of aquatic interventions
2025
TRAFFIC: Reporting and conduct guideline for randomised clinical trials of fermented food interventions
2026
TREATS-RG - Transparent Reporting for Essential oil & Aroma Therapeutic Studies—Reporting Guideline
2024
TRIPOD-Code - a reporting guideline for code repositories associated with diagnostic and prognostic prediction model studies
2025
TRIPOD-P: a reporting guideline for protocols of clinical prediction models/predictive AI tools
2026
TRIPOD-PF - Reporting recommendations for diagnostic and prognostic factor studies
2021
5 February 2026
TRoCA - Transparent Reporting of Cluster Analyses
2024
The CLAIRE statement: a comprehensive reporting and assessing guideline for artificial intelligence in diagnostic imaging
2026
The CSS-EIC Statement: Consensus on Research Ethics and Integrity in Sports Science (Chinese Expert Consensus)
2026
The RAPPORT Statement: Reporting Guideline for Rigor and Reproducibility in Community-engaged research
2026
The Readability Checklist: A reporting guideline for studies assessing the readability of written health information
2026
The Systematic Engine: A Diagnostic Reporting Guideline for Critical Appraisal Processes in Evidence Synthesis
2026
The reporting for Chinese herbal medicine placebo guidelines in randomized controlled trials
2026
Transparent Reporting of Adaptations, Context, and Effects
2026
Transparent Reporting of Educational Interventions and Curriculum Research in Health Professions Education
2026
Transparent Reporting of Educational Interventions and Curriculum Research in Health Professions Education (TEACH)
2026
Transparent Reporting of studies developing, validating, updating or evaluating AI- and ML-based systems in the Care of Older Adults: a reporting guideline (TRAICO)
2026
UNITE: Reporting guidelines for youth and family specific engagement in research
2025
United Through Health (UTH) — a reporting guideline for published national calculations of the monetary cost of the between-group gap in access to health (health-economic estimates of what unequal access costs)
2026
Universal Engagement Reporting Tool (UER)
2026
Updating the Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions
2023
VANRA (Verification of Assertions in Narrative Review Articles): a reporting checklist for narrative review articles
2026
VHC-TEST: a reporting guideline for bench and in vitro testing of spacers and valved holding chambers used with inhalers
2026
WATER - Guideline for Wastewater Analysis and Tracking in Epidemiological Reporting
2025
WHO Trial Registration Data Set (TRDS) extension for organoid studies
2026
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