Sociedad Otorrinolaringológica de Castilla y León, Cantabria y La Rioja (Spain)
Abstract
Introduction and objectives: the authors, reviewers, editors and readers must have specific tools that help them in the process of drafting, review, or reading the articles. Objective: to offer a summary of the major checklists for different types of biomedical research articles. Material and method: review literature and resources of the EQUATOR Network and adaptations in Spanish published by Medicina Clínica and Evidencias en Pediatría journals. Results: are the checklists elaborated by various working groups. (CONSORT and TREND), experimental studies for observational studies (STROBE), accuracy (STARD) diagnostic studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) and for studies to improve the quality (SQUIRE). Conclusions: the use of checklists help to improve the quality of articles and help to authors, reviewers, to the editor and readers in the development and understanding of the content
