An update to SPIRIT and CONSORT reporting guidelines to enhance transparency in randomized trials

Sally Hopewell¹, Isabelle Boutron^{2

3}, An-Wen Chan⁴, Gary S Collins⁵, Jennifer A de Beyer⁵, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson^{6

7}, Camilla Hansen Nejstgaard^{6

7}, Lasse Østengaard^{6

7}, Kenneth F Schulz⁸, Ruth Tunn⁹, David Moher¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit / Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. sally.hopewell@csm.ox.ac.uk.
² Université Paris Cité, Inserm, INRAE, Centre de Recherche Epidémiologie et Statistiques, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
³ Centre d'Epidémiologie Clinique, AP-HP, Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ UK EQUATOR Centre/Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁷ Open Patient Data Explorative Network, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁹ Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit / Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰ Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Sally Hopewell et al. Nat Med. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;28(9):1740-1743.

doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01989-8.

¹ Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit / Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. sally.hopewell@csm.ox.ac.uk.
² Université Paris Cité, Inserm, INRAE, Centre de Recherche Epidémiologie et Statistiques, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
³ Centre d'Epidémiologie Clinique, AP-HP, Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ UK EQUATOR Centre/Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁷ Open Patient Data Explorative Network, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁹ Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit / Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰ Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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