SPIRIT Checklist. This checklist applies to protocols for all clinical trials and focuses on content rather than format. The checklist recommends a full description of what is planned; it does not prescribe how to design or conduct a trial. The SPIRIT recommendations aim to facilitate the drafting of high-quality protocols and enhance the transparency and completeness of trial protocols for the benefit of investigators, trial participants, patients, sponsors, funders, research ethics committees or institutional review boards, peer reviewers, journals, trial registries, policymakers, regulators, and other key stakeholders. Click here for file: www.spirit-statement.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SPIRIT-Checklist-download-8Jan13.doc . (DOC 138Â kb)