Reporting Guidelines and the American Journal of Public Health’s Adoption of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

• DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2011.300630
• Publication Date: 2012-03-15T20:48:56Z
• Authors: Kenneth R. McLeroy; Mary E. Northridge; Hector Balcazar; Michael R. Greenberg; Stewart J. Landers
• Keywords: Review Literature as Topic; 03 medical and health sciences; Evidence-Based Medicine; 0302 clinical medicine; Meta-Analysis as Topic; Research; Humans; Guidelines as Topic; Public Health; Periodicals as Topic; 3. Good health

Widespread recognition of the need to improve science published research, as well moral and ethical reasons for adequately reporting study results, has spurred recent interest in strengthening journal research through use guidelines. Reporting guidelines also provide information readers judge quality. American Journal Public Health previously adopted Consolidated Standards Trials Transparent Evaluations With Nonrandomized Designs recently endorsed Preferred Items Systematic reviews Meta-Analyses In adopting these guidelines, aims support authors, reviewers, editors evaluating systematic public health policy practice priorities.