What influences whether researchers adhere to healthcare reporting guidelines successfully? A thematic synthesis Read more here link.springer.com/article/10.1... #transparency #reportingguidelines

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The #CONSORT Children & Adolescents (CONSORT-C) 2026 reporting guideline aims to improve the quality & completeness of reporting of pediatric RCTs involving kids aged 0–19 years. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @lancetchildadol.bsky.social @equatornetwork.bsky.social @martinoffringa.bsky.social

CONSORT-Children and Adolescents (CONSORT-C) 2026 extension statement: enhancing the reporting and impact of paediatric randomised trials

Appropriately designed, conducted, and reported randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in children and adolescents inform treatment and health-care decisions made by young people, families, researchers, ...

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We are setting out to develop some new recommendations (TRIPOD-CODE) to provide guidance on reporting the availability and structure of code for predictive AI healthcare tools Watch this space, and read the protocol here link.springer.com/article/10.1... #transparency #code #reproducibility

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"The making of a statistician: Doug Altman" - just published in @bmj.com celebrating his 1 million citations and reflecting on his remarkable career and legacy. One of the most influential statisticians in modern medical research. --> www.bmj.com/content/391/... #BMJChristmas #methodologymatters

NEW PAPER: "Reporting guidelines for studies involving generative artificial intelligence applications: what do I use, and when?" --> www.nature.com/articles/s41... #HealthTech #ClinicalAI #MachineLearning #MedAI #AIinMedicine #TransparentAI #HealthInnovation #GenAI

Guidance for reporting AI technology evaluations for ultrasound scanning in regional anaesthesia #AnSky #RASky #AI doi.org/10.1111/anae...

NEW PAPER "The STARD-AI reporting guideline for diagnostic accuracy studies using #artificialintelligence" --> www.nature.com/articles/s41... #machinelearning #MLsky #statssky #digitalhealth #transparency

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NEW PAPER: the CHART reporting guideline for studies evaluating generative AI models like #ChatGPT & other #LLMs for providing health advice --> bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/... The explanation & elaboration paper --> www.bmj.com/content/390/... #genAI #chatbots #healthadvice #reporting

The GREENBEAN checklist. A new reporting guideline for studies evaluating the effectiveness of EEG-based biomarkers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Authors, editors, reviewers, and other potential users should use CONSORT 2025 when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent. Learn more in this Special Communication. https://ja.ma/3TlnKQe

The explanation & elaboration paper is here: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...   All CONSORT 2025 & SPIRIT 2025 documents, figures & fillable checklists are here: www.consort-spirit.org @equatornetwork.bsky.social 2/2

SPIRIT 2025 explanation and elaboration: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials

High quality protocols facilitate proper planning, conduct, reporting, and external review of randomised trials, yet their completeness varies and key elements are often not considered. To strengthen ...

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A Consensus Statement in Nature Medicine from CONSORT 2025 provides updated guidance to authors, reviewers and editors, when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent. go.nature.com/3Si0p1f #medsky 🧪

#CochraneDaily Just published! The SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025 guidance on reporting the protocols and results of randomised trials are both out now www.bmj.com/content/389/... www.bmj.com/content/389/... #RCT #EBHC #EBM #RandomisedTrials @equatornetwork.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: Updated SPIRIT-2025 for reporting protocols of randomised trials is now available in the @BMJ.com, @JAMA.com, @thelancet.bsky.social, @PLoS.org, and @natmedicine.bsky.social. —> www.bmj.com/content/389/... #openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky

Consistent implementation of reporting guidelines is important and helpful in #HRQL research (e.g., link.springer.com/article/10.1... and link.springer.com/article/10.1...) This opinion piece related to the #CONSORT2025 publication offers food for thought on how to implementation can be improved 👇

Reducing waste in collection of quality-of-life data through better reporting: a case study - Quality of Life Research

Purpose This study describes the reporting of the preference-based health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) instrument, the EQ-5D, and proposes strategies to improve reporting and reduce research waste....

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"Reporting guidelines have become an essential instrument of scientific integrity. We need to make the leap from just producing reporting guidelines to helping researchers put them into practice" writes UK EQUATOR Centre director @gscollins.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

"Reporting guidelines have become an essential instrument of scientific integrity. We need to make the leap from just producing reporting guidelines to helping researchers put them into practice" writes UK EQUATOR Centre director @gscollins.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Early-career researchers and students in health research! Join the UK EQUATOR Centre's Publication School to learn how to plan, write, and publish excellent journal articles. Date: Mondays, 23 June – 14 July 2025 Time: 9:30 – 13:30 GMT+1 Where: Online via Zoom bit.ly/equatorpubsc...

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The CONSORT statement has been updated to reflect recent methodological advancements and user feedback. This article describes the rationale for each checklist item and provides published examples of good reporting www.bmj.com/content/389/...

It’s a big day in the reporting guidelines and transparency calendar with the release of the new and revised CONSORT statement for reporting randomised trials (CONSORT-2025) You can get the reporting recommendations here www.bmj.com/content/389/... #OpenAccess #ResearchIntegrity #Transparency

CONSORT 2025 statement: updated guideline for reporting randomised trials

Background Well designed and properly executed randomised trials are considered the most reliable evidence on the benefits of healthcare interventions. However, there is overwhelming evidence that the...

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And this editorial by Evan Mayo-Wilson —> www.bmj.com/content/389/...

See also this opinion piece by me published alongside CONSORT-2025 on the challenges of adhering to reporting guidelines, and making a plea for innovative solutions to improve the completeness of reporting in healthcare research. —> www.bmj.com/content/389/...

David Moher and Ken Schulz have also published this opinion piece on the evolution of CONSORT, and legacy of the late Doug Altman and his role in CONSORT. —> www.bmj.com/content/389/...

—> tinyurl.com/28j8r366 (Lancet) —> tinyurl.com/kkj9evzp (JAMA) —> tinyurl.com/yck9jt88 (Nature Medicine) —> tinyurl.com/48du7ccc (PLoS Medicine)

NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social —> www.bmj.com/content/389/... #openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky

Early-career researchers and students in health research! Join the UK EQUATOR Centre's Publication School to learn how to plan, write, and publish excellent journal articles. Date: Mondays, 23 June – 14 July 2025 Time: 9:30 – 13:30 GMT+1 Where: Online via Zoom bit.ly/equatorpubsc...

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We're a leading partner in the @thinkchecksub.bsky.social initiative (thinkchecksubmit.org) and we're delighted to see Lorraine Estelle's post on the IFLA blog about the important work that TCS does helping authors: blogs.ifla.org/arl/2025/02/... #scholcomm #PredatoryPublishing #academicchatter

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