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Hopewell, Sally https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6881-6984
Chan, An-Wen
Collins, Gary S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2772-2316
Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn
Moher, David https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2434-4206
Schulz, Kenneth F.
Tunn, Ruth
Aggarwal, Rakesh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9689-494X
Berkwits, Michael
Berlin, Jesse A.
Bhandari, Nita
Butcher, Nancy J.
Campbell, Marion K.
Chidebe, Runcie C. W.
Elbourne, Diana
Farmer, Andrew https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6170-4402
Fergusson, Dean A.
Golub, Robert M.
Goodman, Steven N.
Hoffmann, Tammy C. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-8548
Ioannidis, John P. A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-6859
Kahan, Brennan C.
Knowles, Rachel L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5490-7682
Lamb, Sarah E.
Lewis, Steff
Loder, Elizabeth
Offringa, Martin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4402-5299
Ravaud, Philippe
Richards, Dawn P.
Rockhold, Frank W. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3732-4765
Schriger, David L.
Siegfried, Nandi L.
Staniszewska, Sophie
Taylor, Rod S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3043-6011
Thabane, Lehana
Torgerson, David
Vohra, Sunita
White, Ian R.
Boutron, Isabelle https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5263-6241
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Article History
Received: 28 February 2025
Accepted: 5 March 2025
First Online: 15 April 2025
Ethical approval
: Ethical approval was granted by the Central University Research Ethics Committee, University of Oxford (/RE001). All Delphi participants provided informed consent to participate.
: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at and declare: support from MRC-NIHR for the submitted work. S.H., I.B., A.-W.C., A.H., K.F.S. and D.M. are members of the SPIRIT-CONSORT executive group. S.H., I.B., A.-W.C., A.H., K.F.S., G.S.C., D.M., M.K.C., N.J.B., M.O., R.S.T. and S.V. are involved in the development, update, implementation, and dissemination of several reporting guidelines. G.S.C. is the director of the UK EQUATOR Centre, a statistical editor for the BMJ and NIHR senior investigator. D.M. is the director of the Canadian EQUATOR Centre, and member of the BMJ regional advisory board for North America. I.B. is deputy director and P.R. is director of the French EQUATOR Centre. T.C.H. is director of the Australasian EQUATOR Centre. J.P.A.I. is director of the US EQUATOR Centre. R.A. is president of the World Association of Medical Editors. M.K.C. is chair of the MRC-NIHR: Better Methods Better Research funding panel. R.C.W.C. is executive director of Project PINK-BLUE, which receives funding from Roche-Product. A.F. is director of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment Programme. D.P.R. is a full-time employee of Five02 Laboratories, which under contract to Clinical Trials Ontario provides services related to patient and public engagement; and is the volunteer vice president of the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, which receives funding through independent grants from pharmaceutical companies. I.R.W. was supported by the MRC Programmes MCUU00004/07 and MCUU00004/09. D.L.S. is JAMA associate editor and receives editing stipends from JAMA and Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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