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Reporting guidelines: The Equator Network

EQUATOR = Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research – an international initiative to improve the quality of health research publications by promoting transparent and accurate reporting and the use of reporting guidelines.

What is a reporting guideline?

  • Recommendations - in the form of a checklist - for what information should be in your manuscript
  • Different guidelines for different research types and study designs e.g. observational studies, qualitative studies, systematic reviews, economic evaluations, animal studies, diagnostic studies, randomised controlled trials, study protocols…

What can I use a reporting guideline for?

  • To identify what is missing from your manuscript!
  • To help you organise the content of your manuscript

Useful links:

The Equator Network

Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research

Last Updated 19.10.2023