Are Descriptions of Methods Alone Sufficient for Study Reproducibility? An Example From the Cardiovascular Literature
Published 15 February 2020 The process of conducting and disseminating findings of epidemiologic investigations is not standardized. To address this, recommended guidelines, as opposed to mandated rules, were established over 4 decades ago that have become widely endorsed among the biomedical journals, including Epidemiology. One requirement in particular stipulates that the “[m]ethods section sho