Effect of using reporting guidelines during peer review on quality of final manuscripts submitted to a biomedical journal: masked randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of an additional review based on reporting guidelines such as STROBE and CONSORT on quality of manuscripts.

Design

Masked randomised trial. Population Original research manuscripts submitted to the Medicina Clínica journal from May 2008 to April 2009 and considered suitable for publication.

Intervention

Control group

conventional peer reviews alone. Intervention group: conventional review plus an additional review looking for missing items from reporting guidelines. Outcomes Manuscript quality, assessed with a 5 point Likert scale (primary: overall quality; secondary: average quality of specific items in paper). Main analysis compared groups as allocated, after adjustment for baseline factors (analysis of covariance); sensit

SUBMITTER: Cobo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3222149 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature