GoodReports: developing a website to help health researchers find and use reporting guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Th EQUATOR Network improves the quality and transparency in health research, primarily by promoting awareness and use of reporting guidelines. In 2018, the UK EQUATOR Centre launched GoodReports.org , a website that helps authors find and use reporting guidelines. This paper describes the tool's development so far. We describe user experience and behaviour of using GoodReports.org both inside and outside a journal manuscript submission process. We intend to use our findings to inform future development and testing of the tool.

Methods

We conducted a survey to collect data on user experience of the GoodReports website. We cross-checked a random sample of 100 manuscripts submitted to a partner journal to describe the level of agreement between the tool's checklist r

SUBMITTER: Struthers C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8520646 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature