A reporting checklist for human and animal heart rate variability research

What the research tells us

The authors propose minimum reporting items for human and animal HRV research: recording conditions, raw signals, windows, respiration, artefacts, frequency bands, nonlinear parameters, software and statistics. Animal work additionally requires species, anaesthesia, temperature and postoperative recovery conditions.

Scope & interpretation

This is a narrative methodological review and author-proposed checklist. The consulted text did not describe Delphi consensus or external validation. Complete reporting improves inspectability but does not itself establish device validity, physiological specificity or useful clinical prediction.

Study at a glance

POPULATION & SAMPLE

Human and animal HRV methods literature; no new data-analysis sample.

EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT

Reporting requirements for human and animal recording and analysis conditions.

OUTCOMES

Completeness of methodological reporting; no diagnostic or treatment-effect estimate.

TIME FRAME

Depends on short-term, long-term or animal protocols; no common follow-up.