期刊
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 149, 期 -, 页码 217-226出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.05.005
关键词
Guidelines as topic [MeSH]; Methods [MeSH]; Meta-research; Methods guidance; Reporting quality; Transparency
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Univer-sity of Basel
- [190566]
- [3MS1043]
The study systematically surveyed methods guidance articles published in high-impact medical journals in 2020 and identified opportunities for improvement, such as enhancing findability and establishing standards for development and reporting.
Background: To assess the current practice of developing and presenting methods guidance and explore opportunities for improvement.Study Design and Setting: We systematically surveyed methods guidance published in high-impact general and methodology-focused medical journals indexed in MEDLINE in 2020. We included articles that explicitly stated the objective to provide methods guidance for health research. We extracted characteristics related to findability, methods used for development, presentation, and transparency.Results: We included 105 methods guidance articles published in 12 different journals. Less than half had a structured abstract (42%) or was indexed with medical subject headings (38%) or author keywords (17%) related to guidance. Methods for development, reported in 42%, differed between reporting guidelines (n = 13, 100% reported methods) and other guidance articles (n = 92, 34% reported methods). Frequent methods for presentation were illustrative case studies (45%), research checklists (34%), and step-by-step guides (10%). Most articles did not describe the authors' expertise (22%). Conflicts of interest, reported in 34%, were often unclear.Conclusion: Potential areas for improving methods guidance include better findability through more consistent labeling and indexing and standards for development and reporting.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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