MacPherson Hugh, White Adrian, Cummings Mike, Jobst Kim A, Rose Ken, Niemtzow Richard C
STRICTA Group, Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine, York, United Kingdom.
J Altern Complement Med. 2002 Feb;8(1):85-9. doi: 10.1089/107555302753507212.
Acupuncture treatment and control group interventions in parallel-group randomized trials of acupuncture are not always precisely reported. In an attempt to improve standards, an international group of experienced acupuncturists and researchers devised a set of recommendations, designating them STRICTA: STandards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture. In a further consensus-building round, the editors of several journals helped redraft the recommendations. These follow the Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) format, acting as an extension of the CONSORT guidelines for the specific requirements of acupuncture studies. Participating journals are publishing the STRICTA recommendations and requesting prospective authors to adhere to them when preparing reports for publication. Other journals are invited to adopt these recommendations. The intended outcome is that interventions in controlled trials of acupuncture will be more adequately reported, thereby facilitating an improvement in critical appraisal, analysis and replication of trials.
在针刺平行组随机试验中，针刺治疗组与对照组的干预措施并非总是得到精确报告。为提高标准，一个由经验丰富的针灸师和研究人员组成的国际小组制定了一套建议，并将其命名为STRICTA：针刺对照试验干预措施报告标准。在进一步的共识达成过程中，几家期刊的编辑协助重新起草了这些建议。这些建议遵循试验报告统一标准（CONSORT）格式，作为CONSORT指南针对针刺研究特定要求的扩展。参与的期刊正在发表STRICTA建议，并要求未来的作者在准备发表报告时遵守这些建议。其他期刊也被邀请采用这些建议。预期结果是针刺对照试验中的干预措施将得到更充分的报告，从而有助于改进对试验的批判性评价、分析和重复。
