A trial can report a clean effect and still be impossible to repeat, because readers cannot tell what was actually delivered. The TIDieR checklist (Template for Intervention Description and Replication) closes that gap by asking authors to state 12 things about an intervention, from its name to how closely delivery matched the plan. Hoffmann and colleagues published it in the BMJ in 2014 as an…
The TRIPOD+AI checklist is the reporting standard that journals now expect when a manuscript develops or evaluates a clinical prediction model, whether the model uses logistic regression or a random forest. Published in the BMJ in April 2024 by Collins and colleagues, it holds 27 numbered items, replaces the 2015 TRIPOD checklist, and asks for details that older papers never gave, such as fairness, code…
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Match the CASP checklist to your study design, apply the three sections and report the appraisal without a numeric score.
The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale explained: cohort and case-control items, nine-star scoring, a worked example, how to report it and its known limits. See the guide.
