Information is also available on our website www.ImproveHealthResarch.com
Please take a look at our declaration - 'Declaration.pdf' on this page or via the preprint https://osf.io/zyuv5. Portuguese (Declaração.pdf) and German (Deklaration.pdf) translations are also available.
The list of signatories is available in 'Declaration Signatories.pdf'.
To sign the declaration or feedback please fill in the form under 'sign' on ImproveHealthResearch.com or email medsbra@leeds.ac.uk
For more information on the signatories and declaration of their interests, see 'Declaration Signatories Interests.xlsx'
The declaration is a work in progress. We need your help to improve it - please do get in touch with suggestions, criticisms and feedback.
The project is being co-ordinated by Stephen Bradley, Georgia Richards, Kelly Lloyd and Peter Gill on behalf of the signatories.
To find out how the Declaration was developed please read DeclarationDevelopment.pdf in the Declaration Development Folder
Our preprint review paper 'Reducing bias and improving transparency in medical research' provides an overview to some of the problems which have inspired the declaration: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/jy37f/. Additional background reading is provided in the folder 'reading list'.
Join us on 27th April for our hack-a-thon when we will be encouraging journal editors to adopt the Registered Reports format. We will be working from this tracker, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPxFdmXQRNNKRRdNtGRYu2HIVwju-YmDvzKKS62EpLs/edit#gid=0 Add any journals who you think should be contacted who don't currently offer Registered Reports and add your name if you are emailing them.