Reporting Guidelines in Health Research: A Review.
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2015-04
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Contemporary health research has come under close scrutiny, exposing alarming fl aws in the reporting of research.
The reporting guidelines can aid in identifi cation of poorly reported studies and can bring transparency to health
research. The guidelines also help journal editors, peer reviewers, funding agencies, and readers to better discern
health research. Reporting guidelines encourage accurate and thorough reporting of fundamental aspects of
health research so that the results of studies can be replicated by others. Reporting guidelines are potent tools to
improve the practice of research and in reducing reporting bias. For the present review, both electronic and manual
literature search was carried out. Electronic databases like PubMed, MEDLINE, EBSCO host, and Science Direct
were searched for extracting relevant articles. Various key words and their combinations were used for literature
search like reporting guidelines, checklist, research, publishing standards, study design, medicine, and dentistry.
The search results were scrutinized for relevance to the topic and only full text articles in English were incorporated.
Various reporting guidelines were identifi ed and grouped under headings based on study design. This review
article attempts to highlight the various reporting guidelines in literature relating to health research, its potential
applications, and its limitations.
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Checklist, health care research, reporting guidelines, research report
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Simon Arun K, Rao Ashwini, Rajesh Gururaghavendran, Shenoy Ramya,Pai Mithun B. Reporting Guidelines in Health Research: A Review. Indian Journal of Public Health. 2015 Apr-Jun; 59(2): 122-128.