STRICTA: 
STandards for Reporting Clinical Trials of Acupuncture

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Plans for revising STRICTA

The STRICTA Group are working with the CONSORT Group Executive (David Moher and Doug Altman) and the Chinese Cochrane Centre (Wu Taixiang and Li Youping) to revise the STRICTA guidelines as an "official" extension to CONSORT. We have conducted a consultation process with 47 experts. This was followed by a one day consensus-building event where we addressed revisions to the content of STRICTA items. The event was held in Freiburg on Oct 2nd 2008. Since then we have drafted revisions to STRICTA and submitted them for publication. We have also written up the processes we have undertaken as part of revising STRICTA.(MacPherson & Altman 2009)

Reference:

MacPherson H, Altman DG. Improving the quality of reporting acupuncture interventions: describing the collaboration between STRICTA, CONSORT and the Chinese Cochrane Centre. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. 2009; 2: 1-4.