Development and validation of observational and qualitative study protocol reporting checklists for novice researchers (ObsQual checklist).

Introduction: Currently, no reporting guidelines exist for observational and qualitative study protocols. In an effort to enhance the quality of research protocols, we introduce two study protocol reporting checklists that we have developed.

Main Recommendations: These checklists include educational components and examples intended to assist novice researchers.

Routine blood parameters of dengue infected children and adults. A meta-analysis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revised dengue case classification in 2009 to better reflect the severity of the disease. However, there was no comprehensive meta-analysis of pooled routine blood parameters according to the age or the categories of the 2009 WHO classification. This study aimed to meta-analyze the routine blood parameters of dengue infected children and adults.