Reporting guidelines – Manuscript Writing in Medical Research – Pubrica
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An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations, 
Pubrica  Group: www.pubrica.com
Email: [email protected]
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Relevant to the evaluation of reporting guidelines 
 Scenario
Why are Reporting Guidelines Important? 
 About Pubrica
W h a t are R e p o r ti n g G u i d e l i n e s ?
Reporting guidelines are tools that advise authors publishing a  
scientific article on particular study items to be disclosed to  
improve the research rigour, reproducibility, transparency, and 
 scientific community acceptance of the study results and  
conclusions.
Reporting guidelines usually outline the development process  
and give researchers a checklist of elements that should be  
reported based on the study design.
The checklist is extremely valuable since it offers writers an  
easy-to-follow structure for planning the research endeavour,  
from study protocol preparation to study implementation, data  
analysis, and manuscript writing.
Contd...
Each research design has its reporting standards  
(Table 1).
The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health
 
 Research (EQUATOR) Network, a global project  
aimed at improving published health research reporting
 
 
quality, has established the most widely used reporting 
 guidelines.
The most well-known EQUATOR recommendations 
are  Consolidated Reporting Trials (CONSORT) for  
randomised clinical trials (RCTs) and STROBE for  
observational research.
Contd...
Several offers share specific components, such as the experimental research design in the paper  
title and the participant flow diagram, which shows how many people were screened for eligibility,  
how many were eliminated, and why they were excluded.
Other factors to consider are unique to each research design (e.g., the type of randomisation  
procedure used in RCTs within the CONSORT guideline) (1)
Figure. 1 Reporting guidelines of 
EQUATOR(2)
Endorsement— a journal's action to show  
that it supports using one or more reporting  
guideline(s) by authors submitting research  
reports for review; generally accomplished  
through a statement in its "Instructions to 
 authors" section.
Adherence— Action did by an author to  
R e le v a n t t o t h e ensure that a manuscript complies with the  
 Ev a l u a ti o n of items indicated by the appropriate/relevant  
reporting guideline (reports all specified  
R e p o r ti n g items).
G u i d e l i n e s Contd.
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Implementation— Journals are taking steps to 
 guarantee that authors follow approved 
reporting  criteria and that published articles are 
fully  documented.
Complete reporting— the status of a research  
report's reporting and whether it complies with  
any applicable reporting standard.
S c e n a r i o
Researchers conducted a prospective cohort analysis of  
101 patients admitted to the ICU at a university hospital in 
 So Paulo, Brazil, and analysed mechanical ventilator  
waveforms to quantify the prevalence of patient-ventilator 
 asynchrony.
According to the researchers, a high majority of asynchrony  
was linked to more significant weaning failure, but not to  
death.
The study results were published using the STROBE  
(Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in  
Epidemiology) reporting criteria (3).
W h y are R e p o r ti n g
G u i d e l i n e s
I m p o r t a n t ?
The use of reporting rules ensures that writers disclose all  
essential components of a research study, allowing the  
reader to comprehend all relevant parts of the investigation  
properly.
This is critical because other researchers may duplicate  
methods.
Results can be included inefficient reviews or utilised by  
clinicians to assist clinical decision making when a paper  
provides accurate and comprehensive study information.
Contd...
For example, when a paper publishes the results of an
RCTbutfailsto mentionhowmanyprospective  
participantswere removedfromthestudy,the
generalizability and internal validity of the findings may 
 be compromised.
Similarly, in our supposed situation, if the publication  
omitted to indicate how many participants were lost  
during follow-up, readers would be unable to assess  
the cohort study's risk of bias.
As a result, the findings would be useless in clinical  
decision-making.
Contd...
The international research community increasingly recognises that following reporting  
requirements enhances the quality of research and helps to reduce resource waste in poorly  
reported projects.
Asaresult,mosthigh-impactmedicaljournalsnowrequireRCTstofollowCONSORT  standards, 
and most observational studies incorporate STROBE flow diagrams (4).

A b o u t P u b r ic a
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Proofreading, which is the correction of grammar,  
spelling, and other surface problems and is the final step in 
 the editing process, is sometimes mistaken with editing.
The goal of scientific writing editing is to revise and  
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succinct and exact.
The method reduces idiom and eliminates wordiness,  
allowing for improved communication.
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