RIGOROUS

An eight-step framework for designing, conducting, and reporting research with routinely collected health data.

Most guidance arrives at the end, when the study is already built. RIGOROUS works through the whole pipeline — from naming the research task, to defining the estimand, to judging whether the data can carry it — so the decisions that determine what a study can support get made while they are still decisions.

Start by naming the task

The framework asks different questions of each. This is the first thing the tool asks, and it decides everything that follows.

Description

The eight steps

Their initials spell the name. Open one to see what it asks of you.

Work through it on your own study Free, no account needed to start, and every questionnaire exports as a PDF.
Open the tool

Nothing you write is sent anywhere until you choose to make an account, and a questionnaire can be downloaded as a file at any point.