Objectives: Introduce reporting guidelines and other EQUATOR online resources. Discuss and practice using these tools to write and publish well-reported health research.

Description: Improving research publication and dissemination processes is directly linked to more transparent, reproducible and usable research. Reporting guidelines are tools that help researchers to report every important detail about their study when writing a paper. Reports compliant with reporting recommendations are easier to assess and use in systematic reviews, clinical guidelines and practice. Our workshop will summarise the latest research on the quality of the published scientific literature and introduce the EQUATOR Network and reporting guidelines for both primary research and research syntheses. We will provide practical examples of using these resources effectively to achieve maximum impact and further use of reported research.

At the end of this workshop, participants will:
1) Understand the importance of transparency and accuracy in health research reporting and be familiar with common reporting problems.
2) Understand the key concepts of reporting guidelines and their efficient use.
3) Appreciate the relationship between study conduct and study reporting, and differences in their assessment.
4) Learn about the main elements of selected reporting guidelines and have practised using them.
5) Be familiar with the EQUATOR Network’s online resources (www.equator-network.org).