The STREGA checklist is the reporting guideline for genetic association studies. The name stands for STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association studies, and Little and colleagues published it in 2009 as an extension of the STROBE statement [1]. STROBE has 22 items, and STREGA adds genetics-specific text to 12 of them [1]. The additions deal with problems that rarely arise in other observational designs, such…
The PRISMA-IPD checklist has 31 items. See each one applied to a real open-access IPD meta-analysis, with section pointers, judgement calls and a free workflow.
The PRISMA-NMA checklist is the reporting standard that journals expect when a systematic review includes a network meta-analysis. Hutton and colleagues published it in 2015 as an extension to the original PRISMA statement, and it runs to 32 items [1]. Twenty-seven of them are the familiar PRISMA items with wording adapted to networks of treatments, and five are new items about the geometry of the…
Apply the PRISMA-DTA checklist item by item to a real open-access DTA review. See all 27 items, where each answer sits, and the gaps to fix before submission.
Meta-analysis mistakes are the quiet reason many pooled analyses get desk-rejected or, worse, published and later contradicted. A meta-analysis promises the highest tier of evidence, yet the same technical slips appear again and again across specialties, from a fixed-effect model forced onto heterogeneous trials to a funnel plot read like a horoscope. This guide walks through the twelve errors we see most often at Editverse…
