Harms Reporting in the RCTs Underpinning the AAOS Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clavicle Fractures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) publishes clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for various pathologies. An extension to the Consolidated Standards for Reporting (CONSORT) checklist provides authors with a framework for reporting harms in randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to measure harms reporting among RCTs cited as supporting evidence for the AAOS CPG on the treatment of clavicle fractures. This study also sought to determine whether these reporting rates changed over time.

Methods

Adhering to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, we used the AAOS CPG for clavicle fractures and conducted a linear regression analysis to model the relationship be

SUBMITTER: Thompson AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11572585 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature