EQUATOR Network
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
"The aim of the project is to improve the quality and reliability of medical publications by promoting the transparent and accurate reporting of health research.||Over the next five years, the core programme of the EQUATOR Network will provide set of deliverables enabling better reporting, better reviewing, and better editing of health research publications. The key deliverables include:|1. Internet-based resource centre|2. Training programme relating to the reporting and use of reporting guidelines|"
Publications
Altman DG
(2008)
EQUATOR: reporting guidelines for health research.
in Lancet (London, England)
Altman DG
(2008)
EQUATOR: reporting guidelines for health research.
in Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal
Altman DG
(2010)
Responsible reporting of health research studies: transparent, complete, accurate and timely.
in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Ballini L
(2015)
Interventions to reduce waiting times for elective procedures.
in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews
Cobo E
(2011)
Effect of using reporting guidelines during peer review on quality of final manuscripts submitted to a biomedical journal: masked randomised trial.
in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Hirst A
(2012)
Are peer reviewers encouraged to use reporting guidelines? A survey of 116 health research journals.
in PloS one
Hopewell S
(2011)
Reporting of participant flow diagrams in published reports of randomized trials.
in Trials
Hopewell S
(2012)
Reporting guidelines: increasing standards in clinical research reporting
in European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
Kac G
(2011)
Enhanced quality and transparency of health research reporting can lead to improvements in public health policy decision-making: help from the EQUATOR Network.
in Cadernos de saude publica
Moher D
(2008)
Helping editors, peer reviewers and authors improve the clarity, completeness and transparency of reporting health research.
in BMC medicine
| Description | Citation of resources developed by our group by a number journals, research institutions, and funders |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | http://www.consort-statement.org/about-consort/impact-of-consort |
| Description | CSO Grant |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Chief Scientist Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2009 |
| End | 03/2012 |
| Description | Medical Research Council |
| Amount | £380,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2012 |
| End | 06/2016 |
| Description | NIHR Grant |
| Amount | £240,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2010 |
| End | 03/2013 |
| Description | National Institute for Innovation and Improvement Grant |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | NHS England |
| Department | NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2008 |
| End | 04/2009 |
| Title | Library for Health Research Reporting: Database of research reporting guidelines |
| Description | Our Library for Health Research Reporting is a fully searchable coded database of reporting guidelines publications and other resources that facilitate the responsible publication of health related research. The database is regularly updated and now contains approximately 400 reporting guidelines. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The database is hosted online on the EQUATOR website. It is frequently visited and used by users from all around the world (38,000 per month to the website, and constantly rising). It can and has been used as a resource for identifying available reporting guidelines and for conducting research into the development of these guidelines, their impact, or gaps in their availability. Journals/publishers increasingly ask authors to check our database before submission and provide links to the EQUATOR database. Authors increasingly contact us to ask which reporting guideline they should use to report their particular study, and often let us know afterwards if their research papers were successfully published following their enquiry to us for advice. |
| URL | http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/ |
| Description | Collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization to raise standards of health research reporting in the Pan American regions |
| Organisation | Pan American Health Organization |
| Department | PAHO Research Promotion and Development |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The main aim of the collaboration is to raise research reporting standards in South America. The initial phase of this collaboration was a translation of the EQUATOR Network's online Library for Health Research Reporting into Spanish. EQUATOR team members developed and maintain our Library, and produce regular newsletters that are now being translated into Spanish under this collaboration. We also heavily contribute to the direct and indirect dissemination of our work to South American journal editors. EQUATOR's Caroline Struthers, Jennifer de Beyer and Iveta Simera wrote and edited a significant proportion of a four-module online course on enhancing the value and use of research, which was published on the PAHO's CITI Training Platform in June 2017. EQUATOR's Michael Schlussel contributed a Portuguese promotional video. |
| Collaborator Contribution | PAHO has contributed translations, dissemination contacts and practical help with dissemination of the outputs of our collaborative work. PAHO contributed organisational, authorship, editorial and translation expertise to create a four-module online course on enhancing the value and use of research. PAHo translated the modules into Spanish and Portuguese and made them available on its Virtual Campus alongside the English version. |
| Impact | Spanish translation of the English EQUATOR Network website that hosts the online Library for Health Research Reporting. Portuguese translation of the English EQUATOR Network website that hosts the online Library for Health Research Reporting. Regular Spanish EQUATOR Newsletters Promotion campaign targetting South American health research journals Iveta Simera presented at the 4th University Internationalization Seminar organised by PAHO, the Organisation of American States and COIMBRA Group for high representatives of Brazilian Universities in 2016. In 2017, four published online modules were made available via the CITI Program in English, Portguguese and Spanish. The modules are also freely available to all PAHO-supported scholars via the PAHO Virtual Campus. Promotional videos in English, Portuguese and Spanish were also created. (https://www.campusvirtualsp.org/en) |
| Start Year | 2010 |