Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions checklist: explanation and elaboration guide.

Detailed intervention reporting is essential to interpretation, replication, and eventual translation of Music-based Interventions (MBIs) into practice. Despite availability of (RG-MBI, published 2011), multiple reviews reveal sustained problems with reporting quality and consistency. To address this, we convened an interdisciplinary expert panel to update and improve the utility and validity of the existing guidelines using a rigorous Delphi approach. The resulting updated checklist includes 12-items across eight areas considered essential to ensure transparent reporting of MBIs.