Study Design

Reporting Guidelines

• Randomised controlled trials (RCTs): CONSORT guidelines, flowchart and structured abstract checklist
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: PRISMA guidelines, flowchart and structured abstract checklist
• Observational studies in epidemiology: STROBE guidelines (also refer to RECORD for observational studies using routinely collected health data) and MOOSE guidelines
• Diagnostic accuracy studies: STARD guidelines
• Quality improvement studies: SQUIRE guidelines
• Multivariate prediction models: TRIPOD guidelines
• Economic evaluation studies: CHEERS guidelines
• Studies using data from electronic health records: CODE-EHR guidelines
• Animal pre-clinical studies: ARRIVE guidelines

Writing

Title page

Symbols that indicate affiliations (Ref: Red J)

1. Asterisk (⁎)
2. Dagger (†)
3. Double dagger (‡)
4. Section sign (§)
5. Parallel lines (‖)
6. Pilcrow (¶)
7. Number sign (#)
8. Double asterisks (**)
9. (and so on… )