传染病出版物中是否使用报告准则? 一项对1000多篇文章的分析
Aldo Barajas-Ochoa1, Manuel Ramirez-Trejo2, Aditee Dash1
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE
|December 29, 2023
概括
卫生研究质量和透明度的提高 (EQUATOR) 的报告准则在传染病研究中很少使用. 这项研究发现,尽管杂志和出版商进行了宣传,但遵守率很低.
科学领域:
- 医学研究方法学 医学研究方法学
- 传染病 流行病学 流行病学
- 科学出版标准 科学出版标准
背景情况:
- 遵守报告准则可以提高研究的透明度和可重复性.
- 提高健康研究质量和透明度 (EQUATOR) 网络为健康研究报告提供了许多指导方针.
- 传染病研究是一个关键领域,清晰准确的报告是必不可少的.
研究的目的:
- 评估16个提高健康研究质量和透明度 (EQUATOR) 报告指南在传染病研究出版物中的使用情况.
- 为了确定产品的质量.
- 建议使用率使用率.
- 这一领域的报告准则.
主要方法:
- 2019年在五个传染病期刊上发表的1,251篇文章的横截面审计.
- 手动审查每篇文章,以确定使用报告准则的建议性.
- 系统地搜索16个特定的EQUATOR网络报告准则及其缩写的存在.
主要成果:
- 报告准则被认为适用于75% (973/1,251) 的审查文章.
- 总体而言,报告准则仅用于所有文章的6.1%,而建议使用它们的文章仅占8%.
- 建议使用率因指导方针而异,系统审查和元分析 (PRISMA) 的首选报告项目显示较高的遵守率 (0.531) 与CONSORT (00.08) 和TRIPOD (00.66) 相比.
结论:
- 在传染病研究中采用EQUATOR网络报告指南的情况特别罕见.
- 尽管杂志和出版商努力推广这些指南,但它们的使用率仍然很低.
- 需要进一步调查以了解准则采用的障碍,例如知识差距,接受问题或感知到缺乏有用性.
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