Helping editors, peer reviewers and authors improve the clarity, completeness and transparency of reporting health research

Inadequate reporting is problematic for several reasons. If authors do not provide sufficient details concerning the conduct of their study, readers are left with an incomplete picture of what was done. As such, they are not able to judge the merits of the results and interpret them. The EQUATOR Net...

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Autores principales: Moher, David, Simera, Iveta, Schulz, Kenneth F, Hoey, John, Altman, Douglas G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2438435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18558004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-6-13
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description Inadequate reporting is problematic for several reasons. If authors do not provide sufficient details concerning the conduct of their study, readers are left with an incomplete picture of what was done. As such, they are not able to judge the merits of the results and interpret them. The EQUATOR Network is a new initiative aimed at improving the clarity and transparency of reporting health research.
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spelling pubmed-24384352008-06-26 Helping editors, peer reviewers and authors improve the clarity, completeness and transparency of reporting health research Moher, David Simera, Iveta Schulz, Kenneth F Hoey, John Altman, Douglas G BMC Med Commentary Inadequate reporting is problematic for several reasons. If authors do not provide sufficient details concerning the conduct of their study, readers are left with an incomplete picture of what was done. As such, they are not able to judge the merits of the results and interpret them. The EQUATOR Network is a new initiative aimed at improving the clarity and transparency of reporting health research. BioMed Central 2008-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2438435/ /pubmed/18558004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-6-13 Text en Copyright © 2008 Moher et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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