What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma December 2011Class 8 Introdução à Medicina I

SUMMARY I ntroduction J ustification R esearch question A ims M ethods E xpected results R eferences What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma December 20112Class 8

INTRODUCTION December 20113Class 8 S CIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DIVULGATION Scientific journals BooksConferences Governmental reports Technical reports Flyers Online versions What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December 20114Class 8 Scientific articles Scientific journals Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 1665 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 1665 New England Journal of Medicine 1812 New England Journal of Medicine 1812 published in What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December 20115Class 8 Contain… Motivation of the author Experimental design and execution Meaning of the results Require… Clarity Concision Organization Objectivity Better comprehension More effective way of using its results in order to What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December 20116Class 8 New research results Better decisions in: Treatment of patients Management of resources What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December 20117Class 8 Average number of times an article published in a given journal was cited in the last two years Comparison between different scientific areas can induce biased conclusions Journal Citation ReportISI Web of Knowledge What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December 20118Class 8 Possible biases: Size of the articles IF of the journal in which they are published ISI Web of Knowledge Presented in the end of the academic work, bibliographies or specific indexes What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December 20119Class 8 Information for the authors on how they must write their manuscript Scientific Journals Not presentation of guidelines Presentation of guidelines Editing Guidelines Reporting Guidelines External Uniform Requirements STREGA SQUIRE STROBE CONSORT STARD PRISMA GNOSIS TREND ORION COREQ QUORUM REMARK MOOSE Internal What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December Class 8 General Reporting Guidelines Vancouver Group (Vancouver, British Columbia, 1978) International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) First statements: 1979 Last update: 2010 What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

INTRODUCTION December Class 8 Refering to a particular type of study and to other specific aspects of science publication What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

Depends on… Sientific content Way that it is written December Class 8 JUSTIFICATION Influences… Interest of scientific community Diffusion and applicability of the results What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

RESEARCH QUESTION December Class 8 Is there association between the use of internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines and the impact of scientific articles published in General and Internal Medicine Journals? What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

AIMS December Class 8 What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

METHODS December Class 8 What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

METHODS December Class 8 O bservational study T ransversal study A nalytic study What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

December Class 8 Search in ISI Web of Knowledge for journals of General and Internal Medicine. METHODS What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

December Class 8 From all the journals found, some are selected. Inclusion Criteria Journals created before 2008 Exclusion Criteria Journals with a website not available using UP credentials Journals not written in English or in Portuguese METHODS What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

December Class 8 From the remainning journals, select those with reporting guidelines and verify its type. Go to the website of the selected journals Read the section of the instructions for authors Verify if any aguidelines are presented and analyse its type (data placed on SPSS) Does the journal recommend Uniform Requirements? Does the journal recommend STROBE, CONSORT, STREGA or other guidelines of this kind? Does the journal have their own reporting guidelines? Does the journal recommend Uniform Requirements? Does the journal recommend STROBE, CONSORT, STREGA or other guidelines of this kind? Does the journal have their own reporting guidelines? METHODS Select journals with an afirmative answer to, at least, one of the questions (using SPSS) What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

December Class 8 From the remainning journals, select those with reporting guidelines and verify its type. Example: Uses both types of guidelines, depending on the article type. METHODS What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

December Class 8 Search for articles of the selected journals which were published in This information is collected on ISI Web of Knowledge METHODS What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

December Class 8 Export information about selected articles to SPSS. Title of the article Authors Number of citations Journal in which it was published Impact Factor from the journal in 2009 and in 2010 METHODS What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

December Class 8 Calculate the impact for each article. CN – Citation Number IF – Impact Factor of the journal CN – Citation Number IF – Impact Factor of the journal METHODS What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

Novembro de Class 8 Verify the existence of an association between the impact factor of the articles and the type of reporting guidelines used by journals. Calculate the mean impact of all the articles to each journal. Using the value obtained, verify if the impact factor is higher in journals using internal reporting guidelines or in the ones using external reporting guidelines, or even in the ones using both types of reporting guidelines. METHODS What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

EXPECTED RESULTS December Class 8 There will be an association between the use of internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines and the impact of scientific papers  Impact factor of the journal where the articles are published  Proper characteristics of the study  Impact factor of the journal where the articles are published  Proper characteristics of the study What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

EXPECTED RESULTS December Class 8 A guide to the creation (or maintenance) of reporting guidelines for scientific journals from General and Internal Medicine A motivation for further studies on this subject, involving other scientific areas Our study as… Generalization of the results What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

Jacinto T. Informação e conhecimento biomédico, pesquisa bibliográfica, bibliotecas digitais [Biomedical information and knowledge, bibliographic research, digital libraries] [slide]. Porto (Portugal): Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (PT), Departamento de Ciências da Informação e da Decisão em Saúde; Portuguese, English. Nahas FX, Ferreira LM. A arte de redigir um trabalho científico [periódico na Internet] 2005;20 Suppl. 2:17-8. Disponível em URL: Nte AR, Awi DD. Writing a scientific paper: getting to the basics. Niger J. Med (2007) Jul-Sep;16(3): Jacinto T, Morais A, Fonseca JA. How to write a scientific paper - Searching and Managing Biomedical information. Rev Port Pneumol. 2011;17: Samil LR. Writing and publication of a medical article. Vandenbroucke J P. STREGA, STROBE, STARD, SQUIRE, MOOSE, PRISMA, GNOSIS, TREND, ORION, COREQ, QUOROM, REMARK and CONSORT: for whom does the guideline toll?. Clin Epidemiol. 2009;62: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. ICMJE, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [homepage on the Internet]. [place unknown]: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors; 2009 [cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: REFERENCES December Class 8 What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma

Rodrigues P. Artigos científicos, aspectos e orientações base [Scientific papers, guidelines and basic aspects] [slide]. Porto (Portugal): Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (PT), Departamento de Ciências da Informação e da Decisão em Saúde; Portuguese, English. CONSORT Group. CONSORT, TRANSPARENT REPORTING OF TRIALS [homepage on the Internet]. [place unknown]: Minervation; [reviewed 2011 May 16; cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: STROBE Group. STROBE Statement, Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology [homepage on the Internet]. [Bern (Switzerland)]: ISPM – University of Bern; 2009 [cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: statement.org/ SQUIRE Group. SQUIRE, Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence [homepage on the Internet]. [Lebanon (NH)]: [Publisher unknown]; [cited 2011 Dec 1]. Available from: STARD Group. STARD Statement, STAndards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies [homepage on the Internet]. [Amsterdam (The Netherlands)]: [Publisher unknown]; [reviewed 2008 Apr 22; cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: Stefánsson E, Kivelä T. The ingredients of a good paper. Acta Ophthalmol. 2010; 88: REFERENCES December Class 8 What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma