Republication of: Elevating the quality of disability and rehabilitation research: Mandatory use of the reporting guidel
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EDITORIAL
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JOURNAL OF NEUROENGINEERING AND REHABILITATION
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Republication of: Elevating the quality of disability and rehabilitation research: Mandatory use of the reporting guidelines Leighton Chan1*, Allen W. Heinemann2 and Jason Roberts3
Abstract Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation advocates the complete and transparent reporting of research and methods, and is pleased to be part of an initiative to mandate the use of reporting guidelines. This Editorial is a republication of a previously published Editorial in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/j.apmr.2013.12.010), and is republished here under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). For citation purposes, please use the original publication details: Chan L, Heinemann AW, Roberts J. Elevating the Quality of Disability and Rehabilitation Research: Mandatory use of the Reporting Guidelines. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2014;95:415–7.
Editorial With the remarkable growth of disability- and rehabilitationrelated research in the last decade, it is imperative that we support the highest quality research possible. With cuts in research funding, rehabilitation research is now under a microscope like never before, and it is critical that we put our best foot forward. To ensure the quality of the disability and rehabilitation research that is published, the 28 rehabilitation journals simultaneously publishing this editorial (see acknowledgments) have agreed to take a more aggressive stance on the use of reporting guidelines.¹ Research reports must contain sufficient information to allow readers to understand how a study was designed and conducted, including variable definitions, instruments and other measures, and analytical techniques [1]. For review articles, systematic or narrative, readers should be informed of the rationale and details behind the literature search strategy. Too often articles fail to include their standard for inclusion and their criteria for evaluating quality of the studies [2]. As noted by Doug Altman, co-originator of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement and head of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine at Oxford University: “Good reporting is not an optional extra: it is * Correspondence: [email protected] 1 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, 11654 Plaza America Drive, Suite 535, Reston, VA 20190, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
an essential component of good research…we all share this obligation and responsibility” [3].
What are reporting guidelines? Reporting guidelines are documents that assist authors in reporting research methods and findings. They are typically presented as checklists or flow diagrams that lay out the core reporting criteria required to give a clear account of a study’s methods and results. The intent is not just that authors complete a specific reporting checklist but that they ensu
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