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Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2012 Oct;43(4):e31–e42. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.06.031

Table 1.

Core Guidelines

	RCTs CONSORT 2010 rev	Non-RCTs TREND 2004	Observational Studies in Epidemiology: STROBE 2007	Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses PRISMA 2009	Diagnostic Accuracy Studies STARD 2003
Group, Web site	CONSORT Group www.consort-statement.org/	HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Systhesis Team www.cdc.gov/trendstatement/	STROBE Initiative www.strobe-statement.org/	PRISMA Group www.prisma-statement.org/	STARD Group www.stard-statement.org/
Expertise	Clinical trials, statistics, biomedical editors	HIV/AIDS prevention, research, public health practice, journal editors	Epidemiology, methods, statistics, research, journal editors	Systematic review, methods, clinical med, medical editors, a consumer	Research, methods, editors, reps of prof orgs
Explanations	E&E doc + website	[CONSORT E&E doc]	E&E doc	E&E doc	E&E doc
Examples	E&E doc	[CONSORT E&E doc]	E&E doc	E&E doc	E&E doc
Flow diagram	✓	x	x	✓	✓
Additional features	Definitions, contents of an abstract; baseline demographics example.	Distinguishes new items from CONSORT items.	Draft checklist for conference abstracts on website.	Evolution of revision; comparison of two.
Notes; Open access citation + no. simultaneous publications	Replaced CONSORT 2001; 2010 BMC Med² +10 E&E: 2010 BMJ²⁹ +1	Focus=behavioral & public health interventions; Am J Public Health,³⁰ + editorial	Cohort, case-control, cross-sectional studies; 2007 PLoS Med³¹ +7 E&E: 2007 PLoS Med³² +2	Replaced QUOROM; 2009 PLoS Med³³ +5 E&E: 2009 PLoS Med³⁴ +2	2003 BMJ³⁵ + 6 others; +8 later E&E: 2003 Ann Intern Med³⁶ +1; +1 later

✓included

x not included

E&E doc: Explanation and elaboration document

All have rationales and checklists.