Reporting quality of abstracts and inconsistencies with full text articles in pediatric orthopedic publications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Abstracts should provide a brief yet comprehensive reporting of all components of a manuscript. Inaccurate reporting may mislead readers and impact citation practices. It was our goal to investigate the reporting quality of abstracts of interventional observational studies in three major pediatric orthopedic journals and to analyze any reporting inconsistencies between those abstracts and their corresponding full-text articles.

Methods

We selected a sample of 55 abstracts and their full-text articles published between 2018 and 2022. Included articles were primary therapeutic research investigating the results of treatments or interventions. Abstracts were scrutinized for reporting quality and inconsistencies with their full-text versions with a 22-itemized checkli

SUBMITTER: Kamel SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10463470 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature