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CARE guidelines

  • “The CARE guidelines (for CAse REports) were developed by an international group of experts to support an increase in the accuracy, transparency, and usefulness of case reports. View and download the CARE checklist. The CARE guidelines have been endorsed by multiple medical journals and publishers and have been translated into multiple languages. Articles about the CARE guideline development process and a “manual” for writing case reports have been published in 2013 and 2017 in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. The CARE guidelines support the Equator Network’s mission to improve health research reporting. Online training to write case reports following the CARE guidelines is available from Scientific Writing in Health and Medicine (SWIHM), which also provides access to CARE-writer, an online application for writing case reports as preprints or for submission to a scientific journal.“
  • https://www.care-statement.org/
  • 2013 CARE Checklist: https://www.care-statement.org/checklist

STRICTA guidelines

  • “STRICTA has been designed to improve the standards for reporting interventions in clinical trials of acupuncture. These guidelines provide authors a way to structure their reports of interventions using a checklist. The aim is to facilitate transparency in published reports, enabling a better understanding and interpretation of results, aiding their critical appraisal, and providing detail that is necessary for replicability.”
  • https://stricta.info/
  • STRICTA Checklist: https://stricta.info/checklist/

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