The REFLECT Statement

REFLECT stands for Reporting guidElines For randomized controLled trials for livEstoCk and food safeTy. It is an evidence-based minimum set of items for trials reporting production, health, and food-safety outcomes.

The aim of the REFLECT Statement is to help authors improve the reporting livestock trials with production, health, and food-safety outcomes. We have focused on both types of randomized trials, field trials and challenge studies in livestock, and the interventions may be therapeutic or preventive.

The REFLECT Statement consists of a 22-item checklist (listed below). It is an evolving document that is subject to change periodically as new evidence emerges. This website contains the current definitive version of the REFLECT Statement. The full text of the REFLECT statement is now available:

The REFLECT Statement Checklist

The 22 checklist items pertain to the content of a trials conducted using livestock and reporting production, health or food safety outcomes, which include the title, abstract, methods, results, discussion and funding.

Citing the REFLECT Statement

The REFLECT Statement has been accepted for publication by several journals, it is preferable that the authors cite a published document. The published documents will not be available until Jan 2010, so in the mean time cite the website.

Usage of the REFLECT Statement and Explanatory Document

The REFLECT Statement and the REFLECT Explanation and Elaboration document are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited:

The REFLECT Statement: Methods and processes of creating reporting guidelines for randomized control trials for livestock and food safety by A. A. M. O'Connor*, J. M. Sargeant, I. A. Gardner, J. S. Dickson, M. E. Torrence, and consensus meeting participants: C. E. Dewey, I. R. Dohoo, R. B. Evans, J. T. Gray, M. Greiner, G. Keefe, S. L. Lefebvre, P. S. Morley, A. Ramirez, W. Sischo, D. R. Smith, K. Snedeker, J. Sofos, M. P. Ward, R. Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.consort-statement.org.