Darcy A. Reed

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formulate and define standards for reporting qualitative research while preserving the requisite flexibility for the broad spectrum of qualitative research, and present a set of guidelines for reporting such research.

TL;DR: The quality of published medical education research is associated with study funding, and the MERSQI instrument is an effective instrument for measuring the quality of education research studies.

TL;DR: The MERSQI and NOS-E are useful, reliable, complementary tools for appraising methodological quality of medical education research, and interpretation and use of their scores should focus on item-specific codes rather than overall scores.

TL;DR: Women's publication rates increase and actually exceed those of men in the latter stages of careers, yet women hold fewer leadership positions than men overall, suggesting that academic productivity assessed midcareer may not be an appropriate measure of leadership skills and that factors other than publication record and academic rank should be considered in selecting leaders.

TL;DR: MERSQI scores predicted editorial decisions and identified areas of methodological strengths and weaknesses in submitted manuscripts and might be used as a measure of methodological quality.