Trial registration: a great idea switches from ignored to irresistibleDrummond Rennie
JAMA, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
JAMA 292:1359-62. 2004
Registering clinical trialsKay Dickersin
Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence based Healthcare, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
JAMA 290:516-23. 2003
..All stakeholders-investigators, research organizations and institutions, journal editors, lawmakers, consumers, and others-must act now, together and in their own domains, to ensure comprehensive registration of clinical trials...
Prevalence of honorary and ghost authorship in Cochrane reviewsGraham Mowatt
Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Bldg, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland
JAMA 287:2769-71. 2002
..To determine the prevalence of honorary and ghost authorship in Cochrane reviews, how authorship is assigned, and the ways in which authors and Cochrane editorial teams contribute...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative. The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy GroupPatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Croat Med J 44:635-8. 2003
..To improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy in order to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in a study and to evaluate the generalizability of its results...
The STARD statement for reporting studies of diagnostic accuracy: explanation and elaboration. The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy GroupPatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Croat Med J 44:639-50. 2003
..Complete and informative reporting can only lead to better decisions in health care...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fam Pract 21:4-10. 2004
..Our aim was to improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy in order to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in a study and to evaluate the generalizability of its results...
Postmarketing surveillance--lack of vigilance, lack of trustPhil B Fontanarosa
JAMA 292:2647-50. 2004
Research misconduct, retraction, and cleansing the medical literature: lessons from the Poehlman caseHarold C Sox
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:609-13. 2006
..Finally, it requires authors to take pains to avoid citing retracted articles and to issue a correction when they inadvertently cite a retracted article...
Clinical trial investigators and their prescribing patterns: another dimension to the relationship between physician investigators and the pharmaceutical industryBruce M Psaty
JAMA 295:2787-90. 2006
What do the JAMA editors say when they discuss manuscripts that they are considering for publication? Developing a schema for classifying the content of editorial discussionKay Dickersin
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 7:44. 2007
..In an effort to identify previously unrecognized aspects of editorial decision-making, we explored the words and phrases that one group of editors used during their meetings...
Financial ties and concordance between results and conclusions in meta-analyses: retrospective cohort studyVeronica Yank
Stanford University, Stanford Medical Group, Stanford, CA 94305 5765, USA
BMJ 335:1202-5. 2007
..To determine whether financial ties to one drug company are associated with favourable results or conclusions in meta-analyses on antihypertensive drugs...
The STARD statement for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies: application to the history and physical examinationDavid L Simel
Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University, Durham, NC 27705, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:768-74. 2008
..We reviewed each item in the statement for its applicability to clinical examination diagnostic accuracy research, viewing each discrete aspect of the history and physical examination as a diagnostic test...
[The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology [STROBE] statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies]Erik von Elm
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Berna, Switzerland
Gac Sanit 22:144-50. 2008
..We hope that the STROBE statement will contribute to improving the quality of reporting of observational studies...
Seeding trials: just say "no"Harold C Sox
Ann Intern Med 149:279-80. 2008
[The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies]Erik von Elm
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Berna, Suiza
Rev Esp Salud Publica 82:251-9. 2008
..We hope that the STROBE statement will contribute to improving the quality of reporting of observational studies...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center-University of Amsterdam, P. O. Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AJR Am J Roentgenol 181:51-5. 2003
..If medical journals adopt the checklist and the flow diagram, the quality of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy should improve to the advantage of clinicians, researchers, reviewers, journals, and the public...
Toward complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acad Radiol 10:664-9. 2003
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Association between time interval to publication and statistical significanceKay Dickersin
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
JAMA 287:2829-31. 2002
..Studies have shown that reports from clinical trials with statistically significant results tend to be submitted and published more rapidly than reports from studies with null or insignificant findings...
Reporting of informed consent and ethics committee approval in clinical trialsVeronica Yank
Institute for Health Policy Studies and Medical School, University of California, San Francisco, USA
JAMA 287:2835-8. 2002
..To determine whether journals have improved their disclosure of ethical protections in clinical trials...
A proposal for transparencyDrummond Rennie
Science 298:1554; author reply 1554. 2002
Improving reports of studies of diagnostic tests: the STARD initiativeDrummond Rennie
JAMA 289:89-90. 2003
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative. Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic AccuracyPatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Clin Chem 49:1-6. 2003
..To comprehend the results of diagnostic accuracy studies, readers must understand the design, conduct, analysis, and results of such studies. That goal can be achieved only through complete transparency from authors...
The STARD statement for reporting studies of diagnostic accuracy: explanation and elaborationPatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Clin Chem 49:7-18. 2003
..Complete and informative reporting can only lead to better decisions in healthcare...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, Netherlands
BMJ 326:41-4. 2003
..To improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy, to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in a study, and to evaluate a study's generalisability...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: The STARD InitiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Radiology 226:24-8. 2003
..To improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy, to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in the study and to evaluate its generalisability...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: The STARD InitiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ann Intern Med 138:40-4. 2003
..If medical journals adopt the checklist and the flow diagram, the quality of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy should improve to the advantage of the clinicians, researchers, reviewers, journals, and the public...
The STARD statement for reporting studies of diagnostic accuracy: explanation and elaborationPatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ann Intern Med 138:W1-12. 2003
..Complete and informative reporting can only lead to better decisions in health care...
Toward complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy. The STARD initiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Dept of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Am J Clin Pathol 119:18-22. 2003
..If medical journals adopt the checklist and the flow diagram, the quality of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy should improve, to the advantage of clinicians, researchers, reviewers, journals, and the public...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Clin Biochem 36:2-7. 2003
..To improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy in order to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in the study and to evaluate its generalisability...
Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiativePatrick M Bossuyt
Academic Medical Center, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Clin Chem Lab Med 41:68-73. 2003
..To improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy, to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in the study and to evaluate its generalisability...
Stopping medical research to save money: a broken pact with researchers and patientsBruce M Psaty
JAMA 289:2128-31. 2003
Health of the nation 2008 and beyondPhil B Fontanarosa
JAMA 300:1941-2. 2008