We're lucky to have you on the case!!

And a massive thank you to @pwgtennant.bsky.social for encouraging us to write this piece! It wouldn't have happened without your support.

but target trial emulations ARE observational studies :( :( :(

Thanks Peter!

A detailed guidance document and editable template are available here: osf.io/b74wj/files/...

Thanks David!

As part of the ongoing refinement of the guideline, we'd love any feedback you have on it. We've made a survey to house this - redcap.link/target-feedb...
We are eager for all feedback good and bad!

Follow @TARGETGuideline for updates as they come along.

@james-mcauley.bsky.social @miguelhernan.org @lizstuart.bsky.social @margaritamb.bsky.social @sharpmelk.bsky.social and everyone who isn't on Bluesky - Aidan, Sonja, Matt, Hopin, Matthias, Jonathan, Barbra, Xabier, Rob, Sara, Sallie, Sebastian, and Issa

It has been an absolute joy to work with the team that made this guideline possible and we all hope it is useful!

We're still working to produce an E&E document to provide more information about the items and help users of the guideline implement it in their practice.

Overall, we hope TARGET will be help standardise how target trial emulations are reported. This should help journals, reviewers and readers more easily identify the quality of studies, make the studies more replicable, and help policymakers decide whether to use these studies.