The quality of surgical versus non-surgical randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of surgical interventions are often more difficult to conduct, and their quality may lag behind other trials.

Objectives

To compare quality domains in trials of surgical interventions, to a previously reported control sample of general medical trials from December 2006.

Data sources

MEDLINE, EMBASE and CENTRAL were searched in May 2009.

Study eligibility

English language, full text RCTs, performed on humans that compared a surgical intervention to any other intervention.

Study appraisal and synthesis

Records were ordered according to their date of publication. The most recently published trials were assessed first, until the required sample of 400 trials was obtained. The search and data collection were pilo

SUBMITTER: Adie S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5936696 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature