SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM: a corpus for assessing transparency of clinical trial protocol and results publications.

ABSTRACT: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can produce valid estimates of the benefits and harms of therapeutic interventions. However, incomplete reporting can undermine the validity of their conclusions. Reporting guidelines, such as SPIRIT for protocols and CONSORT for results, have been developed to improve transparency in RCT publications. In this study, we report a corpus of 200 RCT publications, named SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM, annotated for transparency. We used a comprehensive data model that includes 83 items from SPIRIT and CONSORT checklists for annotation. Inter-annotator agreement was calculated for 30 pairs. The dataset includes 26,613 sentences annotated with checklist items and 4,231 terms. We also trained natural language processing (NLP) models that automatically identify these items i

SUBMITTER: Jiang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11871027 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature