Reminding Peer Reviewers of Reporting Guideline Items to Improve Completeness in Published Articles: Primary Results of 2 Randomized Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Numerous studies have shown that adherence to reporting guidelines is suboptimal.

Objective

To evaluate whether asking peer reviewers to check if specific reporting guideline items were adequately reported would improve adherence to reporting guidelines in published articles.

Design, setting, and participants

Two parallel-group, superiority randomized trials were performed using manuscripts submitted to 7 biomedical journals (5 from the BMJ Publishing Group and 2 from the Public Library of Science) as the unit of randomization, with peer reviewers allocated to the intervention or control group.

Interventions

The first trial (CONSORT-PR) focused on manuscripts that presented randomized clinical trial (RCT) results and reported following the Consolidat

SUBMITTER: Speich B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10257091 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature