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An event was held in Oxford UK on 12 October 2015 to discuss the practical implications of the revised Good Publication Practice document (GPP3). The presentation given at the event … Continue Reading Good Publication Practice 3 guidelines (#GPP3): practical implications
The James Lind Library has recently published an article by Doug Altman and Iveta Simera that traces the history of research reporting guidelines and the establishment and development of the … Continue Reading A history of the evolution of guidelines for reporting medical research: the long road to the EQUATOR Network
Videos from the recent Cochrane Colloquium are now available (see below). Presentations (within Plenaries I and II) include: The uneven future of evidence-based medicine (Ida Sim) Can too many systematic … Continue Reading [VIDEO] Plenaries from the recent Cochrane Colloquium
A free educational afternoon meeting will be held at Alderley Park in Cheshire on the afternoon of the 3rd of December, entitled: “Improving efficiency, transparency and integrity in medical publications: … Continue Reading [FREE MEETING] Improving efficiency, transparency and integrity in medical publications: overview of the latest guidelines
Registration is now open for the 2016 European Meeting of ISMPP (International Society of Medical Publication Professionals). The meeting title is: Publication Planning in Practice: Overcoming Challenges in the Age … Continue Reading Registration is now open for the 2016 European Meeting of ISMPP (International Society of Medical Publication Professionals)
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Donald Samulack, PhD (President, U.S. Operations, Cactus Communications and Editage), presented and launched an industry-wide call-to-action during a panel session titled “Predatory Author Services: What … Continue Reading Call for the creation of a coalition to vet individuals and companies who offer publication services
The updated Good Publication Practice (GPP) guidelines, known as GPP3, have now been published. The video below provides an overview of what is new in these guidelines. The speaker in the video … Continue Reading What’s new in the latest good publication practice guidelines? #GPP3 [VIDEO]
In a blog for Wiley this week, Liz Wager (a freelance publications consultant, http://www.lizwager.com) provides her views on the importance of the new Good Publication Practice guidelines (GPP3). Liz was … Continue Reading Why it’s time for the new Good publication Practice Guidelines (GPP3)
A study published in BMC Medicine this week assessed the consistency between the reporting of serious adverse events (SAEs) posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and those published in corresponding journal articles. Key findings … Continue Reading Comparison of serious adverse events posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and published in corresponding journal articles
A study published in PLOS ONE in the past week investigated if the number of null results in large National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) funded trials has increased … Continue Reading Likelihood of “negative” publications from large NHLBI clinical trials has increased over time
Manuscript abstracts are an important source of information for healthcare professionals, who may use the information as a basis for treatment decisions. This is particularly the case when open access articles are … Continue Reading Quality of manuscript abstracts in phase III clinical trials versus the CONSORT guidelines
Good Publication Practice 3 (GPP3), a key guidance document for the publication of company-sponsored medical research, has been published online today by the Annals of Internal Medicine. The full article … Continue Reading The latest Good Publication Practice guidelines for industry (GPP-3) are now published
In recent decades, the reproducibility of numerous scientific studies has been called into question. What we’re going to do about the reproducibility ‘crisis’ is a question for everyone involved in … Continue Reading Reproducibility: what are we going to do about it? New checklist from BioMed Central
The Good Publication Practice (GPP3) guidelines are now published. If these guidelines are going to have an impact on you – and you are UK or European based – then you may be … Continue Reading FREE evening panel discussion: new Good Publication Practice guidelines (GPP-3) in practice
A one day training course is being run by the National Clinical Guideline Centre in the UK that will give participants the basic skills to enable them to design and … Continue Reading One-day training course: systematic reviews and meta-analysis in action