Hoffmann, T. C. et al. Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide.
Among the various initiatives that have been undertaken to improve the intervention description, the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) has to be highlighted as the most promising.
Whereas studies were of high quality regarding outcome operationalization and statistical analyses, overall quality was moderate to low due to poor intervention description, population characterization and potential biases.
We used the TIDieR (Template for Intervention: Description and Replication) checklist to assess the quality of description and the reproducibility of interventions.
The aim of this study was to construct and evaluate a summary score of reporting completeness based on the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR).
The TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication) checklist has been developed to aid in summarising key items needed when reporting clinical trials and other well designed evaluations of complex interventions in order that findings can be replicated or built on reliably.
These frameworks include the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR), which helps describe the essential components of an intervention, and pragmatic frameworks like Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) or Pragmatic Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS), which help to report study design elements and outcomes.
Table 1 shows the intervention description according to the TIDieR checklist (Hoffmann et al., 2014): Table 1 Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist Item number Item Brief name 1 Brief intervention for stress management and change in illness perception among hypertensive and normotensive workers: pilot study and protocol.
Table 3 CMS interventions to promote employment and independence Demonstration (Evaluation report) Evaluation design Intervention description Target population/sample Summary of findings Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE) (Whalen et al. 2011) Random assignment demonstration implemented in four states (Texas, Minnesota, Kansas, and Hawaii) from 2006 through 2008.
In order to extract the individual exercise characteristics (used as co-variates in meta-regression analysis) from each included intervention in a standardised manner, a modified version of the Template for Intervention Description and Replication checklist was used [19] (Additional file 1: Table S2).
Two items were endorsed in more than 90% of assessed QI publications (Intervention Description and Implementation).
