Systematic review of clinical outcome reporting in randomised controlled trials of burn care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Systematic reviews collate trial data to provide evidence to support clinical decision-making. For effective synthesis, there must be consistency in outcome reporting. There is no agreed set of outcomes for reporting the effect of burn care interventions. Issues with outcome reporting have been identified, although not systematically investigated. This study gathers empirical evidence on any variation in outcome reporting and assesses the need for a core outcome set for burn care research.

Methods

Electronic searches of four search engines were undertaken from January 2012 to December 2016 for randomised controlled trials (RCTs), using medical subject headings and free text terms including 'burn', 'scald' 'thermal injury' and 'RCT'. Two authors independently scr

SUBMITTER: Young AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398699 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature