Scientific Reporting: Raising the Standards.
This article is based on a presentation that was made at the 2014 annual meeting of the editorial board of Health Education & Behavior. The article addresses critical issues related to standards of scientific reporting in journals, including concerns about external and internal validity and reporting bias. It reviews current reporting guidelines, effects of adopting guidelines, and offers suggestions for improving reporting. The evidence about the effects of guideline adoption and implementation is briefly reviewed. Recommendations for adoption and implementation of appropriate guidelines, including considerations for journals, are provided.
Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX, USA KMcLeroy@sph.tamhsc.edu.
Kenneth R
KR
McLeroy
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Whitney
W
Garney
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Evan
E
Mayo-Wilson
RAND, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Sean
S
Grant
D015982:Bias; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D035081:Editorial Policies; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D058028:Research Report / Q000592:standards*
dissemination and implementation; evaluation; measurement issues; reporting standards; research design