Recently the publisher of “Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology” Springer, sent a policy update for reporting standards of biomedical research submitted for possible publication in their portfolio of journals. In this letter the publisher requests a checklist is completed for manuscripts of Randomized controlled trials, randomized controlled trial protocols, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, case reports and preclinical animal studies, which can be found online at “
https://www.equator-network.org.”. In addition, the publisher strongly recommends that authors adhere to the STROBE guidelines for observational studies and several other study types. …