REMARK: Reporting recommendations for tumour MARKer prognostic studies

Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) Guidelines
CAMARADES (Collaborative Approach to Meta-Analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies)
Reference: Instruments for Assessing Risk of Bias and Other Methodological Criteria of Published Animal Studies: A Systematic Review (Krauth et al., 2013)

While the use of the CAMARADES checklist is commendable, a good awareness of competing and related criteria and checklists and their relative strengths and weaknesses would contribute a welcome critical element to any publication reporting efforts made to reduce bias in the reporting of findings from animal experiments.  Despite any imperfections, the above reference is a helpful resource to inform this process. The rationale for using an instrument such as the CAMARADES checklist is captured well in the same article through the following remarks:

“Identifying bias, the systematic error or deviation from the truth in actual results or inferences (Higgins and Green 2008), in animal research is important because animal studies are often the major or only evidence that forms the basis for regulatory or further research decisions.”
Biospecimen Reporting for Improved Study Quality (BRISQ)  Guidelines – for the reporting of all biomedical research specifically based on human biospecimens. (Moore et al. 2011)

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