Academia Europaea issues New Guidance on Clinical Outcomes Visualization
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – Academia Europaea has released guidelines aimed at improving the clarity and accuracy of clinical outcomes visualization, a critical component of modern medical research and practice. The initiative, drawing on expertise from a diverse international panel, seeks to standardize how data is presented, enhancing reproducibility and facilitating informed decision-making.
The advancement of thes guidelines involved contributions from researchers across multiple disciplines and institutions, including the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy at Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged (Varro, OtherS); the HUN-REN-SZTE Research Group for Cardiovascular Pharmacology (Varro, Other’s); the Institute of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Vieth, Michael); the Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, Heidelberg University (Wensing, Michel); the centre for Population Health, National University of Singapore (Wong, John E. L.); the Institute of Digestive Disease, CUHK-Shenzhen Research Institute (Yu, Jun); the institute for Translational Medicine and pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Mone more); the Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London (Zumla, Alimuddin); the Department of Biostatistics, university of Veterinary Medicine Budapest (Harnos, Andrea); the Department of Radiology, Semmelweis University (Teutsch, Brigitta); the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds (Kuppuswamy, annapoorna); the Department of Mathematics Education, Loughborough University (Morsa, Kinga); and the Department of Plant Anatomy, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Solymosi, Catherine).
The guidelines address key areas such as appropriate chart selection, data labeling, and the avoidance of misleading visual representations. A core principle emphasizes transparency in data presentation to ensure that visualizations accurately reflect the underlying clinical trial or observational study results. further details regarding the guidelines and their implementation are expected to be published in a forthcoming report.
