There is nothing staid about STARD

Abstract
Despite their importance in critical assessment of the literature, the impact of these guidelines has been disappointing. The original CONSORT guidelines came out in 1996.5 A direct comparison of pre-CONSORT reporting from 1994 to post-CONSORT reporting in 1998 demonstrated a small but significant improvement in reporting the CONSORT criteria6; however, by 2003, only 22% of high-impact medical journals referred to CONSORT in their instructions to authors and one-fourth of these referred to out-of-date criteria.7