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Bringing clarity to the reporting of health equity.
In their October editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss the inequities that exist in regards to health, and what can be done to address inequity by better reporting of research in this area. The editorial highlights the development of a reporting guideline for systematic reviews, whose focus is research equity—PRISMA-E, also published this month in PLOS Medicine, and which the journal endorses. The editorial highlights that, by providing structured guidance on the transparent reporting of methods and results in these papers, the PRISMA-Equity 2012 guidelines have the potential to not only improve the state of the published literature, but also, as the authors of PRISMA-E note, to “legitimize and emphasize the importance of reporting health equity results.”
Image Credit: Ged Carroll at flickr.com
Citation: (2012) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 9(10) October 2012. PLoS Med 9(10): ev09.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v09.i10
Published: October 30, 2012
Copyright: © 2012 Carroll. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In their October editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss the inequities that exist in regards to health, and what can be done to address inequity by better reporting of research in this area. The editorial highlights the development of a reporting guideline for systematic reviews, whose focus is research equity—PRISMA-E, also published this month in PLOS Medicine, and which the journal endorses. The editorial highlights that, by providing structured guidance on the transparent reporting of methods and results in these papers, the PRISMA-Equity 2012 guidelines have the potential to not only improve the state of the published literature, but also, as the authors of PRISMA-E note, to “legitimize and emphasize the importance of reporting health equity results.”
Image Credit: Ged Carroll at flickr.com