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STRICTA
2010:
STandards for Reporting Interventions
in Clinical Trials of
Acupuncture
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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 with a minimum set of items
within a checklist. This will facilitate transparency in published
reports, enabling a better understanding and interpretation of results,
aiding their critical appraisal, and providing detail that is necessary
for replication.
| These guidelines are a revised version of what was
originally published in 2001. The new version
has been developed in conjunction with the CONSORT Group Executive, such that
the new version of STRICTA has become an official extension to the CONSORT
Statement. Involved in the revision process have been a wide range of acupuncturists,
physicians, clinical trialists, methodologists, guideline developers and journals
editors from around the world.
STRICTA is published and endorsed by eight
journals, and translated into Chinese
and Korean. Translation into Japanese and Russian
will follow
shortly. STRICTA can be viewed and freely downloaded from this
website. The core content of the STRICTA guidelines consists of a checklist
of six key items, with each item within the checklist having an explanation and
a series of examples of good reporting.
The recent
publication of the revised STRICTA guidelines in 2010 Statement now makes the
previous version, first published 2001 and 2002, out-dated. Users of STRICTA should use
this 2010 version when reporting clinical trials or interpreting published
reports.
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STRICTA 2010 downloads
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Citing the STRICTA Statement from the website (for
authors)
If you are using the STRICTA guidelines from this website,
we recommend that you use journal article citations rather than citing this website. Click
here for more information.
Translations
We welcome the opportunity to make CONSORT available in different languages.
Please see our translated
versions in Chinese and Korean, with the Japanese version to follow soon.
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