Completeness of reporting in abstracts of randomized controlled trials in subscription and open access journals: cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Open access (OA) journals are becoming a publication standard for health research, but it is not clear how they differ from traditional subscription journals in the quality of research reporting. We assessed the completeness of results reporting in abstracts of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in these journals.

Methods

We used the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials Checklist for Abstracts (CONSORT-A) to assess the completeness of reporting in abstracts of parallel-design RCTs published in subscription journals (n = 149; New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Lancet) and OA journals (n = 119; BioMedCentral series, PLoS journals) in 2016 and 2017.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Jercic Martinic-Cezar I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889688 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature