Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research
Objectives The goal of this study is to identify, analyse and classify interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in order to obtain a wide picture of how the problem of enhancing the completeness of reporting of biomedical literature has been tackled so far.Design Scoping review.Sea...
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| author | Doug Altman David Moher David Blanco Isabelle Boutron Jamie J Kirkham Erik Cobo |
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| description | Objectives The goal of this study is to identify, analyse and classify interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in order to obtain a wide picture of how the problem of enhancing the completeness of reporting of biomedical literature has been tackled so far.Design Scoping review.Search strategy We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Library databases and conducted a grey literature search for (1) studies evaluating interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research and (2) other types of references describing interventions that have been performed or suggested but never evaluated. The characteristics and effect of the evaluated interventions were analysed. Moreover, we explored the rationale of the interventions identified and determined the existing gaps in research on the evaluation of interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines.Results 109 references containing 31 interventions (11 evaluated) were included. These were grouped into five categories: (1) training on the use of reporting guidelines, (2) improving understanding, (3) encouraging adherence, (4) checking adherence and providing feedback, and (5) involvement of experts. Additionally, we identified lack of evaluated interventions (1) on training on the use of reporting guidelines and improving their understanding, (2) at early stages of research and (3) after the final acceptance of the manuscript.Conclusions This scoping review identified a wide range of strategies to improve adherence to reporting guidelines that can be taken by different stakeholders. Additional research is needed to assess the effectiveness of many of these interventions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dbae92d77d5f49598cc7fe632659775e2025-02-08T22:35:14ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552019-05-019510.1136/bmjopen-2018-026589Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health researchDoug Altman0David Moher1David Blanco2Isabelle Boutron3Jamie J Kirkham4Erik Cobo5Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford OX3 7LD, UKprofessorDepartment of Physiotherapy, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, SpainInserm, INRAe, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Université Paris Cité, Paris, Île-de-France, FranceCentre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UKStatistics and Operations Research Department, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, SpainObjectives The goal of this study is to identify, analyse and classify interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in order to obtain a wide picture of how the problem of enhancing the completeness of reporting of biomedical literature has been tackled so far.Design Scoping review.Search strategy We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Library databases and conducted a grey literature search for (1) studies evaluating interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research and (2) other types of references describing interventions that have been performed or suggested but never evaluated. The characteristics and effect of the evaluated interventions were analysed. Moreover, we explored the rationale of the interventions identified and determined the existing gaps in research on the evaluation of interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines.Results 109 references containing 31 interventions (11 evaluated) were included. These were grouped into five categories: (1) training on the use of reporting guidelines, (2) improving understanding, (3) encouraging adherence, (4) checking adherence and providing feedback, and (5) involvement of experts. Additionally, we identified lack of evaluated interventions (1) on training on the use of reporting guidelines and improving their understanding, (2) at early stages of research and (3) after the final acceptance of the manuscript.Conclusions This scoping review identified a wide range of strategies to improve adherence to reporting guidelines that can be taken by different stakeholders. Additional research is needed to assess the effectiveness of many of these interventions.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/5/e026589.full |
| spellingShingle | Doug Altman David Moher David Blanco Isabelle Boutron Jamie J Kirkham Erik Cobo Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research BMJ Open |
| title | Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research |
| title_full | Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research |
| title_fullStr | Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research |
| title_short | Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research |
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