Editverse: STREGA Checklist

STREGA Checklist: 22 Items Applied to a Real Open-Access Genetic Association Study

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…

Editverse: PRISMA-NMA Checklist

PRISMA-NMA Checklist: 32 Items With a Worked Example

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…

dental research trend analysis

Analyze Trends: Forecasting Methods That Predict Future Directions in Dental Science

Our ‘dental research trend analysis’ provides insights into the latest trends and future directions in dental research and practice.