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SPIRIT 2025 provides updated guidance to authors, reviewers and editors, when preparing clinical trial protocols to enhance their transparency and completeness.
CONSORT 2025 provides updated guidance to authors, reviewers and editors, when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent
TRIPOD-LLM (transparent reporting of a multivariable model for individual prognosis or diagnosis–large language model) is a checklist of items considered essential for good reporting of studies that are developing or evaluating an LLM for use in healthcare settings. It is a ‘living guideline’ that emphasizes transparency, human oversight and task-specific performance reporting.
The BePRECISE (Better Precision-data Reporting of Evidence from Clinical Intervention Studies & Epidemiology) consortium, comprising 23 experts in precision medicine, cardiometabolic diseases, statistics, editorial and lived experience, provides a checklist tool and recommendations for reporting precision medicine research.
Patient-reported outcomes are invaluable tools, but may impose a burden on patients; this consensus statement provides a set of 19 recommendations to reduce respondent burden.
To guide the safe implementation of the next generation of surgical robots, the IDEAL Robotics Colloquium provides recommendations for their evaluation throughout the product life cycle—considering multiple perspectives within and beyond the surgical team.
A systematic review of evidence, across the key pillars of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis, outlines milestones that need to be met to enable the broad clinical implementation of precision medicine in diabetes care.
The International Childhood Cancer Outcome Project group, involving survivors and other relevant stakeholders, develop a set of core outcomes to measure the quality of care for 17 types of childhood cancers.
The Outcome4Medicine consensus group outline recommendations for postoperative outcome assessment, with the ultimate goal of improving care quality and patient health.
The DECIDE-AI checklist, resulting from a multi-stakeholder group of experts in a Delphi process and following the EQUATOR Network’s recommendations, includes key items that should be reported in early-stage clinical studies of AI-based decision support systems, to ensure a responsible and transparent deployment of AI systems in healthcare.
The STORMS tool provides guidance for concise and complete reporting of microbiome studies to facilitate manuscript preparation, peer review, reader comprehension of publications, and comparative analysis of published results.
The CONSORT-AI and SPIRIT-AI extensions improve the transparency of clinical trial design and trial protocol reporting for artificial intelligence interventions.
The CONSORT-AI and SPIRIT-AI extensions improve the transparency of clinical trial design and trial protocol reporting for artificial intelligence interventions.
