title: Reporting of medical research costs. Improving transparency and reproducibility of medical research.
abstract: Increasing numbers of research reporting guidelines are being published. These guidelines facilitate rigorous and complete reporting, and presentation of published studies. However, current reporting guidelines do not address issues related to costs of research methods. We propose to publish costs of research in order to increase transparency, efficiency, quality and ultimately reproducibility of scientific studies.
authors.affiliation: Benjamin Jelle Visser, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD Amsterdam, PO Box 2270, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: b.j.visser@amc.uva.nl.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: A W G
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Buijink
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Grobusch
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics*; D016265:Conflict of Interest / Q000191:economics; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000191:economics; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D011643:Publishing / Q000191:economics*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D058028:Research Report
keywords: Evidence-based medicine; publishing guidelines; research costs; transparency