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Eur J Gen Pract
Eur J Gen Pract
The European Journal of General Practice
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The ‘Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care’ (CRISP) statement in the European Journal of General Practice
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Stoffers Jelle a
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6040-4221
Burgers Jako bc
a Former Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of General Practice Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
b Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of General PracticeDutch College of General Practitioners, Utrecht, The Netherlands
c Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
jako.burgers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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pmcIn November 2023, the European Journal of General Practice (EJGP) editorial team received an email from William R. Phillips on behalf of the author group of the CRISP (Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care) statement, published in the November/December 2023 issue of the Annals of Family Medicine [1]. The authors requested EJGP to consider (a) including the statement in its ‘Instructions for Authors’ and (b) addressing the CRISP statement in an editorial.

The EJGP editorial team discussed this topic in its December 2023 and March 2024 meetings. The editors saw as the key feature of the statement that primary care authors should be aware of reporting the context of their research, i.e. general practice/family medicine/primary care. In addition to other reporting guidelines, we saw the tips for the Introduction and Discussion sections of a manuscript as a benefit of the CRISP statement. We found the guidance in the Methods section less relevant since ‘context’ is an essential element in other reporting guidelines. Setting, recruitment, study population/sample, comparison groups, and description of qualitative studies are universal reporting elements.

There was consensus among the editorial team that we should include the CRISP statement in the EJGP Instructions for Authors, although not as a compulsory requirement. The CRISP statement and checklist can be found on the CRISP website [2] and accessed through the Equator Network website [3].

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1 Phillips WR, Sturgiss E, Glasziou P, et al. Improving the reporting of primary care research: Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care – the CRISP Statement. Ann Fam Med. 2023;21 (6 ):549–555. doi: 10.1370/afm.3029.37788942
2 CRISP Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care; [cited 2024 Oct 26]. Available from: https://crisp-pc.org/.
3 Equator Network. Improving the Reporting of Primary Care Research: consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care – the CRISP Statement; [cited 2024 May 26]. Available from: https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/improving-the-reporting-of-primary-care-research-consensus-reporting-items-for-studies-in-primary-care-the-crisp-statement/.
