Bossuyt Patrick M
Academisch Medisch Centrum, afd. Klinische epidemiologie, biostatistiek en bio-informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2015;159:A8797.
Reporting guidelines have been developed for randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and many other types of studies. Most of these have a checklist of essential items that have to be included in every study report. Describing these essential items enables readers to better judge the validity, relevance and applicability of study findings. The website of the Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research (EQUATOR) network now lists more than 200 such reporting guidelines. While they have been endorsed by many journals and other organizations, uptake has been incomplete. The implicit assumption in many guidelines was that editors of scientific journals would police authors, thereby enforcing the use of the checklists. We argue that the groups responsible for reporting guidelines could put more effort into the development of tools for authors, reviewers and editors to facilitate the implementation of these guidelines. This would contribute to completeness and transparency in reporting clinical and biomedical research.
已经针对随机临床试验、系统评价及许多其他类型的研究制定了报告指南。其中大多数都有一份基本项目清单，每份研究报告都必须包含这些项目。描述这些基本项目能使读者更好地判断研究结果的有效性、相关性和适用性。提高健康研究质量和透明度（EQUATOR）网络的网站目前列出了200多种此类报告指南。虽然它们已得到许多期刊和其他组织的认可，但采用情况并不完整。许多指南中隐含的假设是，科学期刊的编辑会监督作者，从而强制使用清单。我们认为，负责报告指南的团体可以在为作者、审稿人和编辑开发工具方面投入更多精力，以促进这些指南的实施。这将有助于临床和生物医学研究报告的完整性和透明度。
