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STARE-HI – Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics
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Elske Ammenwerth
- Private Universität für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Med. Informatik und Technik Tirol, Hall in Tirol, Austria
| Published: | August 29, 2017 |
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STARE-HI is a guideline for the publication of health IT evaluation studies [1]. The goal of STARE-HI is to improve the quality of published evaluation studies in health informatics. STARE-HI is considered as an important step towards Evidence-Based Health Informatics (EBHI) [2].
STARE-HI was developed to respond to the urgent need for high-quality health IT evaluation publications, as health IT evaluation studies often show insufficient reporting quality. For example, while reviewing 23 randomized health IT trials, Jamal et al. found an insufficient description of the health IT intervention, of allocation or randomization procedures, or of data collection procedures [3]. Likewise, while reviewing 257 health IT studies, Chaudhry et al. found insufficient description of the health IT intervention, the implementation process and the organizational context while reviewing health IT evaluation studies [4]. Shekelle et al. analysed 258 health IT evaluation studies and found that only very few studies reported sufficient information on the organizational and technical context, including health IT usage and users [5].
To respond to these shortcomings, the Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics (STARE-HI) was developed in a joint effort of Workings Group of Health IT Evaluation of EFMI (European Federation of Medical Informatics) and IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association).
STARE-HI has been internationally published [1]. An explanation and elaboration paper is available [6] as well as a shortened version for conference paper [7].
The STARE-HI checklist comprises 30 items that should be contained in a publication, including objective of the study, organizational setting, system details and system in use, study design, study flow, outcome measures, unexpected observations, and meaning and generalizability of results.
STARE-HI has been formally adopted by EFMI and IMIA. It has also been adopted by scientific journals such as Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) and Methods of Information in Medicine. STARE-HI is referenced by the Equator Network. According to Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), the original publication of STARE-HI [1] has been cited 89 times (as of May-8th, 2017), indicating a high interest in using or discussing this reporting quality checklist.
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