Reporting on data sharing: executive position of the EQUATOR Network

In 2006, the late Doug Altman, from the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, and colleagues, established the first EQUATOR (Enhancing the Quality and Transparency Of health Research) Centre. As of February 2024, EQUATOR is a network comprising five centres (Australasia, Canada, China, France, and the UK) and an executive group. The remit of EQUATOR is “to achieve accurate, complete, and transparent reporting of all health research studies to support research reproducibility and usefulness.”1 While EQUATOR offers several toolkits and other resources to help researchers achieve transparency in reporting their research, the most recognised feature is the open online library of reporting guidelines.2Summary pointsThe EQUATOR (Enhancing the Quality and Transparency Of health Research) executive supports the practice of data sharing when reporting all researchData sharing is important and should be a checklist item in all reporting guidelinesTo avoid the potential research waste and confusion to research teams due…
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