Talmon Jan, Ammenwerth Elske, Brender Jytte, de Keizer Nicolette, Nykänen Pirkko, Rigby Michael
Center for Research, Innovation, Support and Policy-CRISP, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Int J Med Inform. 2009 Jan;78(1):1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.09.002. Epub 2008 Oct 18.
Development of guidelines for publication of evaluation studies of Health Informatics applications.
An initial list of issues to be addressed in reports on evaluation studies was drafted based on experiences as editors and reviewers of journals in Health Informatics and as authors of systematic reviews of Health Informatics studies, taking into account guidelines for reporting of medical research. This list has been discussed in several rounds by an increasing number of experts in Health Informatics evaluation during conferences and by using e-mail and has been put up for comments on the web.
A set of STARE-HI principles to be addressed in papers describing evaluations of Health Informatics interventions is presented. These principles include formulation of title and abstract, of introduction (e.g. scientific background, study objectives), study context (e.g. organizational setting, system details), methods (e.g. study design, outcome measures), results (e.g. study findings, unexpected observations) and discussion and conclusion of an IT evaluation paper.
A comprehensive list of principles relevant for properly describing Health Informatics evaluations has been developed. When manuscripts submitted to Health Informatics journals and general medical journals adhere to these aspects, readers will be better positioned to place the studies in a proper context and judge their validity and generalisability. It will also be possible to judge better whether papers will fit in the scope of meta-analyses of Health Informatics interventions. STARE-HI may also be used for study planning and hence positively influence the quality of evaluation studies in Health Informatics. We believe that better publication of both quantitative and qualitative evaluation studies is an important step toward the vision of evidence-based Health Informatics.
This study is based on experiences from editors, reviewers, authors of systematic reviews and readers of the scientific literature. The applicability of the principles has not been evaluated in real practice. Only when authors start to use these principles for reporting, shortcomings in the principles will emerge.
制定卫生信息学应用评估研究的发表指南。
根据作为卫生信息学期刊的编辑和审稿人以及卫生信息学研究系统评价作者的经验，同时考虑医学研究报告指南，起草了评估研究报告中需解决问题的初始清单。该清单在会议期间由越来越多的卫生信息学评估专家通过电子邮件进行了多轮讨论，并在网上征求意见。
提出了一套在描述卫生信息学干预措施评估的论文中应遵循的STARE-HI原则。这些原则包括IT评估论文的标题和摘要、引言（如科学背景、研究目的）、研究背景（如组织环境、系统细节）、方法（如研究设计、结果测量）、结果（如研究发现、意外观察结果）以及讨论和结论的制定。
已制定出一份全面的原则清单，用于恰当描述卫生信息学评估。当提交给卫生信息学期刊和普通医学期刊的稿件遵循这些方面时，读者将能更好地将这些研究置于适当背景中，并判断其有效性和普遍性。也将能够更好地判断论文是否符合卫生信息学干预措施荟萃分析的范围。STARE-HI还可用于研究规划，从而对卫生信息学评估研究的质量产生积极影响。我们认为，更好地发表定量和定性评估研究是朝着循证卫生信息学愿景迈出的重要一步。
本研究基于编辑、审稿人、系统评价作者和科学文献读者的经验。这些原则在实际应用中的适用性尚未得到评估。只有当作者开始使用这些原则进行报告时，原则中的缺点才会显现出来。
