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The #CONSORT Children & Adolescents (CONSORT-C) 2026 reporting guideline aims to improve the quality & completeness of reporting of pediatric RCTs involving kids aged 0–19 years.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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We are setting out to develop some new recommendations (TRIPOD-CODE) to provide guidance on reporting the availability and structure of code for predictive AI healthcare tools
Watch this space, and read the protocol here
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#transparency #code #reproducibility
Early-career researchers and students in health research! Join the UK EQUATOR Centre's Publication School to learn how to plan, write, and publish excellent journal articles.
Date: 1–4 Dec 2025 OR Mondays 19 Jan – 9 Feb 2026
Time: 9:30 – 13:30 GMT
Online
resources.equator-network.org/training.htm...
"The making of a statistician: Doug Altman" - just published in @bmj.com celebrating his 1 million citations and reflecting on his remarkable career and legacy. One of the most influential statisticians in modern medical research.
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#BMJChristmas #methodologymatters
NEW PAPER: "Reporting guidelines for studies involving generative artificial intelligence applications: what do I use, and when?"
--> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#HealthTech #ClinicalAI #MachineLearning #MedAI #AIinMedicine #TransparentAI #HealthInnovation #GenAI
Guidance for reporting AI technology evaluations for ultrasound scanning in regional anaesthesia
#AnSky #RASky #AI
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
NEW PAPER "The STARD-AI reporting guideline for diagnostic accuracy studies using #artificialintelligence"
--> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#machinelearning #MLsky #statssky #digitalhealth #transparency
Early-career researchers and students in health research! Join the UK EQUATOR Centre's Publication School to learn how to plan, write, and publish excellent journal articles.
Date: 1–4 Dec 2025 OR Mondays 19 Jan – 9 Feb 2026
Time: 9:30 – 13:30 GMT
Online
resources.equator-network.org/training.htm...
NEW PAPER: the CHART reporting guideline for studies evaluating generative AI models like #ChatGPT & other #LLMs for providing health advice
--> bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
The explanation & elaboration paper
--> www.bmj.com/content/390/...
#genAI #chatbots #healthadvice #reporting
The GREENBEAN checklist.
A new reporting guideline for studies evaluating the effectiveness of EEG-based biomarkers
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
CONSORT 2025 Statement Updated Guideline for Reporting Randomized Trials
Authors, editors, reviewers, and other potential users should use CONSORT 2025 when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent.
Learn more in this Special Communication.
https://ja.ma/3TlnKQe
EQUATOR website updated.
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The explanation & elaboration paper is here: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
All CONSORT 2025 & SPIRIT 2025 documents, figures & fillable checklists are here: www.consort-spirit.org
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As does TRIPOD+AI (2024) for reporting predictive AI studies 😀
www.bmj.com/content/385/...
Health researchers, have you ever wondered how to:
• Negotiate authorship
• Choose a journal
• Develop good writing habits
• Write each section of an article
• Revise your own writing
• Respond to peer review
The UK EQUATOR Centre's Publication School is here to help! bit.ly/equatorpubsc...
This is figure 1, which shows the CONSORT 2025 flow diagram.
A Consensus Statement in Nature Medicine from CONSORT 2025 provides updated guidance to authors, reviewers and editors, when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent. go.nature.com/3Si0p1f #medsky 🧪
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#CochraneDaily Just published! The SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025 guidance on reporting the protocols and results of randomised trials are both out now
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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#RCT #EBHC #EBM #RandomisedTrials @equatornetwork.bsky.social
NEW PAPER: Updated SPIRIT-2025 for reporting protocols of randomised trials is now available in the @BMJ.com, @JAMA.com, @thelancet.bsky.social, @PLoS.org, and @natmedicine.bsky.social.
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
Consistent implementation of reporting guidelines is important and helpful in #HRQL research (e.g.,
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
and
link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
This opinion piece related to the #CONSORT2025 publication offers food for thought on how to implementation can be improved 👇
"Reporting guidelines have become an essential instrument of scientific integrity. We need to make the leap from just producing reporting guidelines to helping researchers put them into practice" writes UK EQUATOR Centre director @gscollins.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Early-career researchers and students in health research! Join the UK EQUATOR Centre's Publication School to learn how to plan, write, and publish excellent journal articles.
Date: Mondays, 23 June – 14 July 2025
Time: 9:30 – 13:30 GMT+1
Where: Online via Zoom
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The CONSORT statement has been updated to reflect recent methodological advancements and user feedback.
This article describes the rationale for each checklist item and provides published examples of good reporting
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
The recommendations are also published in
JAMA (@jama.com)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Lancet (@thelancet.bsky.social)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Nature Medicine (@naturemedicine.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
PLoS Medicine (@plos.org)
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
And the linked Explanation and Elaboration paper which discusses each reporting recommendation and provides examples of good reporting
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
It’s a big day in the reporting guidelines and transparency calendar with the release of the new and revised CONSORT statement for reporting randomised trials (CONSORT-2025)
You can get the reporting recommendations here
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#OpenAccess #ResearchIntegrity #Transparency
And this editorial by Evan Mayo-Wilson
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
See also this opinion piece by me published alongside CONSORT-2025 on the challenges of adhering to reporting guidelines, and making a plea for innovative solutions to improve the completeness of reporting in healthcare research.
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
David Moher and Ken Schulz have also published this opinion piece on the evolution of CONSORT, and legacy of the late Doug Altman and his role in CONSORT.
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
—> tinyurl.com/28j8r366 (Lancet)
—> tinyurl.com/kkj9evzp (JAMA)
—> tinyurl.com/yck9jt88 (Nature Medicine)
—> tinyurl.com/48du7ccc (PLoS Medicine)
NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky