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Anomalous tumbling of colloidal ellipsoids in Poiseuille flows
Shear flows cause aspherical colloidal particles to tumble so that their
orientations trace out complex trajectories known as Jeffery orbits. The
Jeffery orbit of a prolate ellipsoid is predicted to align the particle's
principal axis preferentially in the plane transverse to the axis of shear.
Holographic microscopy measurements reveal instead that colloidal ellipsoids'
trajectories in Poiseuille flows strongly favor an orientation inclined by
roughly relative to this plane. This anomalous observation is
consistent with at least two previous reports of colloidal rods and dimers of
colloidal spheres in Poiseuille flow and therefore appears to be a generic, yet
unexplained feature of colloidal transport at low Reynolds numbers.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials.
The CONSORT statement is used worldwide to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials. Kenneth Schulz and colleagues describe the latest version, CONSORT 2010, which updates the reporting guideline based on new methodological evidence and accumulating experience. To encourage dissemination of the CONSORT 2010 Statement, this article is freely accessible on www.ijph.it
Interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research: a scoping review protocol
Introduction There is evidence that the use of some
reporting guidelines, such as the Consolidated Standards
for Reporting Trials, is associated with improved
completeness of reporting in health research. However,
the current levels of adherence to reporting guidelines are
suboptimal. Over the last few years, several actions aiming
to improve compliance with reporting guidelines have been
taken and proposed. We will conduct a scoping review of
interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines
in health research that have been evaluated or suggested,
in order to inform future interventions.
Methods and analysis Our review will follow the Joanna
Briggs Institute scoping review methods manual. We will
search for relevant studies in MEDLINE, EMBASE and
Cochrane Library databases. Moreover, we will carry out
lateral searches from the reference lists of the included
studies, as well as from the lists of articles citing the
included ones. One reviewer will screen the full list, which
will be randomly split into two halves and independently
screened by the other two reviewers. Two reviewers will
perform data extraction independently. Discrepancies
will be solved through discussion. In addition, this search
strategy will be supplemented by a grey literature search.
The interventions found will be classified as assessed or
suggested, as well as according to different criteria, in
relation to their target (journal policies, journal editors,
authors, reviewers, funders, ethical boards or others) or
the research stage at which they are performed (design,
conducting, reporting or peer review). Descriptive
statistical analysis will be performed.
Ethics and dissemination A paper summarising the
findings from this review will be published in a peer reviewed
journal. This scoping review will contribute to a
better understanding and a broader perspective on how
the problem of adhering better to reporting guidelines
has been tackled so far. This could be a major first
step towards developing future strategies to improve
compliance with reporting guidelines in health research
The CARE guidelines: consensus-based clinical case reporting guideline development
Abstract
Background
A case report is a narrative that describes, for medical, scientific, or educational purposes, a medical problem experienced by one or more patients. Case reports written without guidance from reporting standards are insufficiently rigorous to guide clinical practice or to inform clinical study design.
Primary Objective. Develop, disseminate, and implement systematic reporting guidelines for case reports.
Methods
We used a three-phase consensus process consisting of (1) pre-meeting literature review and interviews to generate items for the reporting guidelines, (2) a face-to-face consensus meeting to draft the reporting guidelines, and (3) post-meeting feedback, review, and pilot testing, followed by finalization of the case report guidelines.
Results
This consensus process involved 27 participants and resulted in a 13-item checklist—a reporting guideline for case reports. The primary items of the checklist are title, key words, abstract, introduction, patient information, clinical findings, timeline, diagnostic assessment, therapeutic interventions, follow-up and outcomes, discussion, patient perspective, and informed consent.
Conclusions
We believe the implementation of the CARE (CAse REport) guidelines by medical journals will improve the completeness and transparency of published case reports and that the systematic aggregation of information from case reports will inform clinical study design, provide early signals of effectiveness and harms, and improve healthcare delivery.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112624/1/13256_2013_Article_2617.pd
The CARE Guidelines: Consensus‐Based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/101880/1/head12246.pd
Update on the endorsement of CONSORT by high impact factor journals: a survey of journal
The CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement provides a minimum standard set of items to be reported in published clinical trials; it has received widespread recognition within the biomedical publishing community. This research aims to provide an update on the endorsement of CONSORT by high impact medical journals.We performed a cross-sectional examination of the onlin
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