Division of Physical Therapy, Division of Rehabilitation Science, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University - College of Human Medicine and Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2022 Jul;103(7):1487-1498. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2022.03.019. Epub 2022 Apr 15.
The Rasch Reporting Guideline for Rehabilitation Research (RULER) provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based, transparent, and consistent recommendations for reporting studies that apply Rasch Measurement (RM) Theory in a rehabilitation context. The purpose of the guideline is to ensure that authors, reviewers, and editors have uniform guidance about how to write and evaluate research on rehabilitation outcome assessments. The RULER statement includes an organizing framework and a checklist of 59 recommendations. This companion article supports the RULER statement by providing details about the framework, rationale for the domains and recommendations in the checklist and explaining why these considerations are important for improving consistency and transparency in reporting the results of RM studies. This article is not intended to describe how to conduct RM studies but provides rationale for the essential elements that authors should address in each domain. Consistency and transparency in reporting RM studies will advance rehabilitation research if authors consider these issues when planning their study and include the checklist when they submit their manuscript for peer review. A copy of the checklist can be found at [table 2 in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2022.03.013].
Rasch 报告准则在康复研究（RULER）中提供了同行评审、基于证据、透明和一致的建议，用于报告在康复环境中应用 Rasch 测量（RM）理论的研究。该准则的目的是确保作者、评论者和编辑在如何编写和评估康复结果评估研究方面有统一的指导。RULER 声明包括一个组织框架和一个包含 59 条建议的清单。本文通过提供有关框架的详细信息、清单中各领域和建议的基本原理以及解释为什么这些考虑因素对于提高 RM 研究结果报告的一致性和透明度很重要，为 RULER 声明提供支持。本文并不是要描述如何进行 RM 研究，而是为作者在每个领域应解决的基本要素提供了基本原理。如果作者在计划研究时考虑这些问题，并在提交稿件进行同行评审时包含清单，那么 RM 研究报告的一致性和透明度将促进康复研究。清单的副本可在 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2022.03.013 中的表 2 找到]。
