Reporting Guidelines in Health Research: A Review.

Contemporary health research has come under close scrutiny, exposing alarming fl aws in the reporting of research. The reporting guidelines can aid in identifi cation of poorly reported studies and can bring transparency to health research. The guidelines also help journal editors, peer reviewers, funding agencies, and readers to better discern health research. Reporting guidelines encourage accurate and thorough reporting of fundamental aspects of health research so that the results of studies can be replicated by others. Reporting guidelines are potent tools to improve the practice of research and in reducing reporting bias. For the present review, both electronic and manual literature search was carried out. Electronic databases like PubMed, MEDLINE, EBSCO host, and Science Direct were searched for extracting relevant articles. Various key words and their combinations were used for literature search like reporting guidelines, checklist, research, publishing standards, study design, medicine, and dentistry. The search results were scrutinized for relevance to the topic and only full text articles in English were incorporated. Various reporting guidelines were identifi ed and grouped under headings based on study design. This review article attempts to highlight the various reporting guidelines in literature relating to health research, its potential applications, and its limitations.

Reporting Guidelines of Medical Research / 가정의학회지

Medical research should be reported transparently so that readers can follow what was planned, what was done, what was found, and what conclusion was drawn. The credibility of research depends on a critical assessment by others of the strengths and weaknesses in study design, conduct, and analysis. Despite several decades of educational efforts, many researches still are not reported adequately. Therefore some investigators have suggested guidelines for reporting of various research results. After the initiative to improve the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCT), many other consensus across discipline for reporting guideline of meta-analysis of RCT, meta-analysis of observation study, case-control study, cohort study was developed. So we want to introduce family physicians various reporting guidelines that hope this report will contribute to assessing and improving the quality of reporting of medical researches.