Impact of peer review on reports of randomised trials published in open peer review journals: retrospective before and after study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effectiveness of open peer review as a mechanism to improve the reporting of randomised trials published in biomedical journals.

Design

Retrospective before and after study.

Setting

BioMed Central series medical journals.

Sample

93 primary reports of randomised trials published in BMC-series medical journals in 2012.

Main outcome measures

Changes to the reporting of methodological aspects of randomised trials in manuscripts after peer review, based on the CONSORT checklist, corresponding peer reviewer reports, the type of changes requested, and the extent to which authors adhered to these requests.

Results

Of the 93 trial reports, 38% (n=35) did not describe the method of random sequence generation, 54% (n=50) concealm

SUBMITTER: Hopewell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4077234 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature