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BMJ Research Methods and Reporting: Reporting research

BMJ Research Methods and Reporting: Reporting research

Professor Adrian Hunnisett

(2016)

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CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research: the GPP2 guidelines CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers Comparative effectiveness research in cancer screening programmes Economic evaluation using decision analytical modelling: design, conduct, analysis, and reporting Consort 2010 statement: extension to cluster randomised trials IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 1: the idea and development stages Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement Economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials: design, conduct, analysis, and reporting IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 3: randomised controlled trials in the assessment stage and evaluations in the long term study stage IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 2: observational studies in the exploration and assessment stages The Ottawa Statement on the ethical design and conduct of cluster randomised trials: precis for researchers and research ethics committees Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement Evaluating policy and service interventions: framework to guide selection and interpretation of study end points Publication guidelines for quality improvement studies in health care: evolution of the SQUIRE project

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Book Cover C
Title i
Copyright ii
About the publisher iii
About The BMJ iii
Contents iv
About the author vi
Chapter 1 Introduction to Research Methods and Reporting series vii
Chapter 2 CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials 1
Incomplete and inaccurate reporting 1
Improving the reporting of RCTs: the CONSORT statement 2
The CONSORT 2010 Statement: explanation and elaboration 2
The CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration: changes 2
Checklist items 3
Reporting RCTs that did not have a two group parallel design 21
Discussion 21
Chapter 3 SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials 28
Purpose and development of explanation and elaboration paper 30
SPIRIT 2013 Explanation and Elaboration 31
Trial registration—registry 31
Trial registration—data set 31
Roles and responsibilities—contributorship 32
Roles and responsibilities—sponsor contact information 33
Roles and responsibilities—sponsor and funder 33
Roles and responsibilities—committees 33
Section 2: Introduction 34
Background and rationale 34
Background and rationale—choice of comparators 34
Objectives 35
Trial design 35
Section 3a: Methods—participants, interventions, and outcomes 36
Study setting 36
Eligibility criteria 36
Interventions 37
Interventions—modifications 38
Interventions—adherence 38
Interventions—concomitant care 39
Outcomes 39
Participant timeline 40
Sample size 42
Recruitment 43
Section 3b: Methods—assignment of interventions (for controlled trials) 44
Allocation—sequence generation 44
Allocation—concealment mechanism 44
Allocation—implementation 46
Blinding (masking) 46
Blinding (masking)—emergency unblinding 47
Section 3c: Methods—data collection, management, and analysis 47
Data collection methods 47
Data collection methods—retention 48
Data management 49
Statistical methods 51
Statistical methods—outcomes 51
Statistical methods—additional analyses 51
Subgroup analysis 52
Adjusted analysis 52
Data monitoring—formal committee 54
Data monitoring—interim analysis 55
Auditing 56
Research ethics approval 57
Protocol amendments 57
Consent or assent 57
Consent or assent—ancillary studies 58
Confidentiality 58
Declaration of interests 59
Access to data 59
Ancillary and post-trial care 60
Dissemination policy—trial results 60
Dissemination policy—authorship 61
Dissemination policy—reproducible research 62
Informed consent materials 62
Biological specimens 62
Discussion 63
Chapter 4 Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research: the GPP2 guidelines 72
Evolving standards 72
Methods 72
Guidelines and recommendations 73
Roles and responsibilities 73
Written agreement 73
Access to data 74
Reimbursement 74
Publication steering committee 74
Authors 74
Contributorship and acknowledgments 74
Contributorship and contributors 74
Acknowledgments 75
Professional medical writers 75
Working with authors 75
As authors 75
Conflicts of interest 75
Recommendations for specific types of articles and presentations 76
Primary and secondary publications 76
Duplicate publication 76
Presentations 76
Review articles 76
Reporting standards 76
Planning, registering, posting, and documenting 76
Publication planning 76
Before publication 77
Documentation 77
Checklists 77
Chapter 5 CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials 79
Introduction 79
Intent of CONSORT 2010 79
Background to CONSORT 79
Development of CONSORT 2010 80
Changes in CONSORT 2010 80
Implications and limitations 80
Chapter 6 Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement 84
CONSORT initiative 84
Methods 85
Recommendations for reporting pragmatic trials 85
Item 2: introduction; background 86
Item 3: methods; participants 87
Item 4: methods; interventions 87
Item 6: methods; outcomes 88
Item 7: methods; sample size 88
Item 11: methods; blinding (masking) 88
Item 13: results; participant flow 88
Item 21: generalisability (applicability, external validity) 89
Generalisability of the trial findings 89
Discussion 89
Chapter 7 Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers 92
Background 92
Data preparation guidance 92
What is the dataset? 92
Anonymisation 93
Use of dates relevant to individuals 93
File preparation 93
Copyright 93
Prospective data publication 93
Retrospective data publication 94
Preparing for journal submission—statement in submitted manuscript 94
Alternatives to journal publication 94
Limitations of this guidance 94
Chapter 8 Comparative effectiveness research in cancer screening programmes 96
Screening programmes change medicine 96
Comparative effectiveness research 96
Lack of evidence 96
The Norwegian approach 97
Comparative research in public health programmes 98
Chapter 9 Economic evaluation using decision analytical modelling: design, conduct, analysis, and reporting 99
Defining the question 99
Decision trees 99
Markov models 99
Alternative modelling approaches 100
Identifying, synthe sising, and transforming data inputs 101
Quantifying and reporting cost effectiveness 101
Handling variability, uncertainty, and heterogeneity 101
Model evaluation 102
Value of additional research 102
Conclusions 102
Chapter 10 Consort 2010 statement: extension to cluster randomised trials 104
Scope of this paper 104
Updating the CONSORT statement for cluster randomised trials 105
The updating process 106
Advances in methodology since 2004 106
Advances in reporting requirements since 2004 106
Quality of reporting of cluster trials 106
Extension of CONSORT 2010 to cluster trials 106
Title and abstract 109
Item 1a 109
Item 1b 109
Introduction 109
Background and objectives 109
Item 2a 109
Item 2b 110
Methods 110
Trial design 110
Item 3a 110
Item 3b 110
Participants 111
Item 4a 111
Interventions 111
Item 5 111
Outcomes 111
Item 6a 111
Sample size 111
Item 7a 111
Item 7b 112
Randomisation 112
Sequence generation 112
Item 8b 112
Allocation concealment mechanism 113
Item 9 113
Implementation 113
Item 10 113
Item 10a 113
Item 10b 113
Item 10c 114
Blinding 114
Item 11a 114
Statistical methods 114
Item 12a 114
Results 115
Participant flow 115
Item 13a 115
Item 13b 115
Baseline data 115
Item 15 115
Numbers analysed 116
Item 16 116
Outcomes and estimation 116
Item 17a 116
Discussion 116
Generalisability 116
Item 21 116
Comment 117
Chapter 11 IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 1: the idea and development stages 120
Introduction 120
Idea (IDEAL stage 1) 120
Development (IDEAL stage 2a) 121
Discussion 122
Summary 123
Chapter 12 Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance 124
Revisiting the 2000 MRC framework 124
What are complex interventions? 124
Development, evaluation, and implementation 124
Developing a complex intervention 125
Assessing feasibility 125
Evaluating a complex intervention 126
Assessing effectiveness 126
Measuring outcomes 126
Understanding processes 126
Conclusions 127
Chapter 13 The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration 128
Introduction 128
The QUOROM statement and its evolution into PRISMA 128
Development of PRISMA 129
Scope of PRISMA 129
How to use this paper 129
The PRISMA checklist 129
Title and abstract 129
Methods 132
Results 137
Introduction 131
Outcomes 138
Primary 138
Discussion 141
Funding 142
Additional considerations for systematic reviews of non randomisedintervention studies or for other types of systematic reviews 143
Discussion 143
Chapter 14 Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement 152
Reporting challenges and shortcomings in health economic evaluations 152
Aim and scope 152
Development of the CHEERS statement 153
Checklist items 153
Concluding remarks 153
Chapter 15 Economic evaluation alongside randomisedcontrolled trials: design, conduct, analysis, and reporting 156
What are the objectives of economic evaluation? 156
Design of trial based economic evaluations 156
How are data measured and valued? 157
Use of resources 157
Valuation of resource use 157
Measurement and valuation of outcomes 157
Analysis and reporting of data 158
Discounting 158
Dealing with skewed, missing, and censored data 158
Handling uncertainty 158
Longer term extrapolation 159
Advantages of trial based economic evaluations? 159
Chapter 16 IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 3: randomised controlled trials in the assessment stage and evaluations in the long term study stage 161
Introduction 161
Randomised controlled trials in the assessment stage 161
Intervention definition 162
Who should deliver the intervention? 162
Impact of treatment preferences 163
Long term study stage 163
Long term evaluation of procedures 163
Surveillance of devices 164
Summary 164
Chapter 17 IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 2:observational studies in the exploration and assessment stages 166
Introduction 166
Reaching the exploration stage (IDEAL stage 2b) 166
Nature and challenges of the exploration stage: preparing for a definitive evaluation 166
Nature and challenges of assessment (IDEAL stage 3) 167
Non-randomised controlled trials 168
Interrupted time series 169
Summary 169
Chapter 18 The Ottawa Statement on the ethical design and conduct of cluster randomised trials: précis for researchers and research ethics committees 171
Introduction 171
Aims 171
Development 172
Implications 172
Justifying the cluster randomised design 172
Research ethics committee review 172
Identifying research participants 172
Obtaining informed consent 172
Gatekeepers 173
Assessing benefits and harms 173
Protecting vulnerable participants 174
Discussion 174
Chapter 19 Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement 176
Terminology 176
Developing the PRISMA statement 176
The PRISMA statement 177
From QUOROM to PRISMA 177
Endorsement 177
The PRISMA explanation and elaboration paper 177
Discussion 177
Chapter 20 Evaluating policy and service interventions: framework to guide selection and interpretation of study end points 181
Assessing targeted service interventions 181
Policy and generic service interventions 182
Narrow versus diffuse effects 182
Selecting end points 182
Cost effectiveness of studies using patient level end points 183
Rare problems and small effect sizes 183
Modelling cost effectiveness 183
Alternatives to measuring effects at patient level 184
Discussion 184
Surrogate outcomes and publication bias 184
Bayesian methods and decision analysis 184
Representational nature of the model 185
Chapter 21 Publication guidelines for quality improvement studies in health care: evolution of the SQUIRE project 186
Introduction 186
Special features of quality improvement 186
Differences between SQUIRE and draft guidelines 188
The development process 188
Informal feedback 188
Deciding when to use the guidelines 189
Forcing articles into a rigid format 189
Creating longer articles 189
Conjoint use with other publication guidelines 189
Formal commentaries 189
Health disparities 189
IMRaD structure 189
Dumbing down improvement reports 189
Consensus meeting of editors and research scholars 190
Delphi process 190
Limitations and questions 190
Applying SQUIRE 190
Current and future directions 190
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