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When reading research articles, do you ever struggle to find what you want? Poor reporting is a common annoyance in research papers: missing elements, ambiguous statements, poor labelling, and poor graphics. I am sure I am guilty myself, but for the sake of readers, we need to do better. Things have improved a bit since the CONSORT statement (www.consort-statement.org) for reporting of clinical trials was published in the 1990s and has become widely adopted by medical journals. Since then, the success of CONSORT has been such that a plethora of new statements and acronyms has emerged: STARD (for diagnostics), STROBE (observational studies), QUOROM (for meta-analyses, but now replaced by PRISMA), STREGA, MOOSE, and a full zoo of others. If you can’t keep track of these but are interested, then you might find the EQUATOR collaboration helpful (www.equator-network.org/home). As described in a Notebook in this
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