Study reporting guidelines: How valid are they?

Catherine Arundel; Sophie James; Matthew Northgraves; Alison Booth

doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100343

Study reporting guidelines: How valid are they?

Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2019 Mar 11:14:100343. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100343. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Authors

Catherine Arundel¹, Sophie James¹, Matthew Northgraves¹, Alison Booth¹

Affiliation

¹ York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK.

Abstract

Reporting guidelines help improve the reporting of specific study designs, and clear guidance on the best approaches for developing guidelines is available. The methodological strength, or validation of guidelines is however unclear. This article explores what validation of reporting guidelines might involve, and whether this has been conducted for key reporting guidelines.

Keywords: Reporting guidelines; Validation; Validity.