STRICTA recommendations

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.

Downloads for STRICTA 2010:

Acupuncture in Medicine

PLoS Medicine

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 has been endorsed and will be published by six English language journals. It can be freely viewed and downloaded from this website. Translations will follow shortly in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The 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, out-dated. Users of STRICTA should use this 2010 version when publishing clinical trials or interpreting published reports.

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 (currently the 2001 English language version) in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.