Reporting guidelines should be free to publish, read, and use

doi:10.7189/jogh.10.0203107

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. 2020 Dec;10(2):0203107.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.0203107.

Reporting guidelines should be free to publish, read, and use

Patricia Logullo¹, Jennifer A de Beyer¹, Shona Kirtley¹, Caroline Struthers¹, Gary S Collins^{1

2}

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¹ UK EQUATOR Centre, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33437467
PMCID: PMC7774013
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.0203107

Review

Reporting guidelines should be free to publish, read, and use

Patricia Logullo et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;10(2):0203107.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.0203107.

Authors

Patricia Logullo¹, Jennifer A de Beyer¹, Shona Kirtley¹, Caroline Struthers¹, Gary S Collins^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ UK EQUATOR Centre, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33437467
PMCID: PMC7774013
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.0203107

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Competing interest: All authors completed an ICMJE conflicts of interest form, available upon request from the corresponding author. All authors are involved, as part of the EQUATOR Network, in the development, update, implementation and dissemination of reporting guidelines.

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[1] Altman DG, Simera I.A history of the evolution of guidelines for reporting medical research: the long road to the EQUATOR Network. J R Soc Med. 2016;109:67-77. 10.1177/0141076815625599 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Altman DG, Simera I.A history of the evolution of guidelines for reporting medical research: the long road to the EQUATOR Network. J R Soc Med. 2016;109:67-77. 10.1177/0141076815625599 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Collins G, Logullo P. Research TO DO list: How can we improve the quality of peer review and research | Peer Review Week. Peer Review Week 2019. Available: https://peerreviewweek.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/research-to-do-list-how-.... Accessed: 30 November 2020.

[4] Collins G, Logullo P. Research TO DO list: How can we improve the quality of peer review and research | Peer Review Week. Peer Review Week 2019. Available: https://peerreviewweek.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/research-to-do-list-how-.... Accessed: 30 November 2020.

[5] Altman DG, Simera I, Hoey J, Moher D, Schulz K.EQUATOR: reporting guidelines for health research. Lancet. 2008;371:1149-50. 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60505-X - DOI - PubMed

[6] Altman DG, Simera I, Hoey J, Moher D, Schulz K.EQUATOR: reporting guidelines for health research. Lancet. 2008;371:1149-50. 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60505-X - DOI - PubMed

[7] ICMJE. Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. 2018. Available: http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf. Accessed: 30 November 2020. - PubMed

[8] ICMJE. Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. 2018. Available: http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf. Accessed: 30 November 2020. - PubMed

[9] Nicholls SG, Langan SM, Benchimol EI, Moher D.Reporting transparency: making the ethical mandate explicit. BMC Med. 2016;14:44. 10.1186/s12916-016-0587-5 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Nicholls SG, Langan SM, Benchimol EI, Moher D.Reporting transparency: making the ethical mandate explicit. BMC Med. 2016;14:44. 10.1186/s12916-016-0587-5 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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