Open access journal PLoS Medicine has published a paper in its latest issue, which is expected to provide a substantial new resource for the developers of guidelines of the reporting of health research. The authors of the paper have reportedly been key in the development of various important health research guidelines published over the past few years. These include the CONSORT guidelines for clinical trials and the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews.
The authors of this report are part of a larger group of experts who have for many years been advocating for, and producing, guidelines aimed at the improvement of reporting of health research. The importance of these guidelines is now increasingly recognised by the wider research community, and, moreover, they are increasingly required by journals. In addition to individual guidelines this group has also spearheaded the development of an overarching network, the EQUATOR Network, which contains most of the currently developed guidelines.
The paper (http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000217) is seen to represent a further effort to promote better reporting. The authors note that if reporting guidelines are to be useful and more widely disseminated, they need to be developed using robust and widely accepted methodologies.
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