GoodReports: An online tool helping authors find and use reporting checklists to improve completeness of reporting

GoodReports：帮助作者查找和使用报告清单以提高报告完整性的在线工具

• 批准号: MR/S036741/1
• 负责人: Gary Collins
• 金额: $ 53.57万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FS036741%2F1
• 关键词: GoodReports; online; tool; helping; authors

Researchers communicate about their work and findings by writing and publishing reports in journals. However, it has been suggested that around 80% of all medical research doesn't actually contribute to our knowledge, so can't be used to improve healthcare. Inappropriate study design, delays in publishing, non-publishing, not giving enough detail in a publication, and only publishing some results are some reasons for this waste.People interested in solving this waste problem have been investigating causes and possible solutions for many years. Funders, journals, researchers, and others have supported initiatives and developed tools to help researchers design, run, and write up their research. Reporting guidelines are one such tool. A reporting guideline is like a shopping list to remind people writing articles of the key information that readers need to repeat the research or judge if the methods were good enough to make the results reliable. The best reporting guidelines are developed by expert groups following a rigorous procedure and written up and published in a peer-reviewed journal. Reporting guidelines are published and updated at different times in different journals, making it difficult for researchers to keep up to date with what's available. Awareness of these tools, particularly among early-career researchers, is low as researchers are not routinely taught about them during training. Good journals recommend reporting guidelines, and some make it compulsory for authors to submit a filled-in checklist with their manuscript. However, often neither the journal editors dealing with incoming manuscripts nor the authors know which reporting guideline is most appropriate. And often authors need more than one guideline.The EQUATOR Network works to promote well-written, complete health research articles, for example through our freely available, comprehensive searchable database of reporting guidelines. We developed a prototype online tool called GoodReports to help researchers find and use reporting guidelines more easily (www.goodreports.org). In recognition of the tool's promise in preliminary studies, it won the Cochrane-REWARD prize for reducing research waste in September 2018.The GoodReports online tool asks researchers a set of simple questions about their research to "diagnose" which reporting guideline they need. The tool offers an online version of the recommended checklist, with pop-up explanations for each item and examples of good reporting where available. The checklist can also be downloaded to use offline. GoodReports asks authors to go through the checklist, clarify or add more information to their manuscript if required, mark where in the manuscript they have reported the information, and submit the filled checklist with their manuscript. The GoodReports prototype contains 16 reporting guidelines. A pilot in four BMC journals found authors using GoodReports were more likely to use the right reporting guideline. Preliminary data from a study of BMJ Open authors suggested authors using the tool were more likely to submit a reporting checklist with their manuscript than those that don't.We propose to improve GoodReports from prototype to sharable tool. We will add more checklists, make it possible for users to combine elements from more than one reporting guideline, and add at least one example of good reporting for every checklist item. Development will be based on data from our two preliminary studies and user feedback. We will continue to collect GoodReports user feedback online throughout the project to iteratively direct how the tool develops. We will also ask the opinions of early-career researchers in local focus groups and of authors and other potential users (e.g., journal editors and medical writers) in wider online surveys. We will then test whether the GoodReports tool increases the completeness of manuscripts submitted to a medical journal in a randomised trial.

研究人员通过在期刊上撰写和发表报告来交流他们的工作和发现。然而，有人认为，大约80%的医学研究实际上并没有为我们的知识做出贡献，因此不能用于改善医疗保健。研究设计不当、发表延迟、不发表、发表不够详细、只发表一些结果是造成这种浪费的一些原因。多年来，有兴趣解决这种浪费问题的人一直在调查原因和可能的解决方案。资助者、期刊、研究人员和其他人支持倡议并开发工具，帮助研究人员设计、运行和撰写他们的研究。报告指南就是这样一种工具。报道指南就像一份购物清单，提醒撰写文章的人读者需要重复研究的关键信息，或者判断方法是否足够好，以使结果可靠。最佳报告指南是由专家小组按照严格的程序制定的，并撰写并发表在同行评议的期刊上。报告指南在不同的期刊上在不同的时间发表和更新，这使得研究人员很难跟上现有的最新情况。对这些工具的认识很低，特别是在职业生涯初期的研究人员中，因为研究人员在培训期间没有被常规地传授这些工具。好的杂志推荐报道指南，有些杂志强制要求作者提交一份填写好的清单和手稿。然而，通常情况下，处理来稿的期刊编辑和作者都不知道哪种报道准则最合适。而且作者通常需要不止一个指南。赤道网络致力于推广写得好的、完整的健康研究文章，例如通过我们免费提供的、全面的可搜索报告指南数据库。我们开发了一个名为GoodReports的原型在线工具，以帮助研究人员更容易地找到和使用报告指南(www.goodreports.org)。由于认识到该工具在初步研究中的前景，它在2018年9月因减少研究浪费而获得了Cochrane奖励奖。GoodReports在线工具向研究人员询问一组关于他们的研究的简单问题，以“诊断”他们需要哪种报告指南。该工具提供了建议清单的在线版本，每一项都有弹出式解释，并在可用的情况下提供了良好的报告示例。核对表也可以下载以供脱机使用。GoodReports要求作者仔细检查检查表，如果需要，在他们的手稿中澄清或添加更多信息，在手稿中标记他们报告了信息的位置，并将填写的核对表与他们的手稿一起提交。GoodReports原型包含16个报告指南。在四家BMC期刊中进行的一项试点研究发现，使用GoodReports的作者更有可能使用正确的报道指南。来自BMJ Open作者研究的初步数据表明，使用该工具的作者比没有使用该工具的作者更有可能提交一份报告清单。我们建议将GoodReports从原型改进为可共享的工具。我们将增加更多的核对表，使用户能够组合来自多个报告指南的元素，并为每个核对表项目添加至少一个良好报告的例子。开发将基于我们两项初步研究的数据和用户反馈。我们将继续在整个项目中在线收集GoodReports用户反馈，以迭代地指导工具的开发。我们还将在当地焦点小组中征求早期职业研究人员的意见，并在更广泛的在线调查中征求作者和其他潜在用户(例如，期刊编辑和医学作家)的意见。然后，我们将在随机试验中测试GoodReports工具是否提高了提交给医学杂志的手稿的完整性。

项目成果

OSF Preregistration: Does providing authors with customized article templates including items from reporting guidelines improve completeness of reporting? A randomized trial

OSF 预注册：为作者提供定制的文章模板（包括报告指南中的项目）是否可以提高报告的完整性？

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Struthers C

Industry ties and evidence in public comments on the FDA framework for modifications to artificial intelligence/machine learning-based medical devices: a cross sectional study.

• DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039969
• 发表时间: 2020-10-14
• 期刊: BMJ open
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Smith JA;Abhari RE;Hussain Z;Heneghan C;Collins GS;Carr AJ
• 通讯作者: Carr AJ

Reporting guidelines should be free to publish, read, and use.

• DOI: 10.7189/jogh.10.0203107
• 发表时间: 2020-12
• 期刊: Journal of global health
• 影响因子: 7.2
• 作者: Logullo P;de Beyer JA;Kirtley S;Struthers C;Collins GS
• 通讯作者: Collins GS

A meta-research study revealed several challenges in obtaining placebos for investigator-initiated drug trials.

一项荟萃研究揭示了为研究者发起的药物试验获取安慰剂的几个挑战。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.007
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of clinical epidemiology
• 影响因子: 7.2
• 作者: Speich B

GoodReports: developing a website to help health researchers find and use reporting guidelines.

• DOI: 10.1186/s12874-021-01402-x
• 发表时间: 2021-10-17
• 期刊: BMC medical research methodology
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Struthers C;Harwood J;de Beyer JA;Dhiman P;Logullo P;Schlüssel M
• 通讯作者: Schlüssel M