Protocol for a systematic review of reporting standards of anaesthetic interventions in randomised controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is significant variation in how anaesthesia is defined and reported in clinical research. This lack of standardisation complicates the interpretation of published evidence and planning of future clinical trials. This systematic review will assess the reporting of anaesthesia as an intervention in randomised controlled trials (RCT) against the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials for Non-Pharmacological Treatments (CONSORT-NPT) framework.

Methods and analysis

Online archives of the top six journals ranked by impact factor for anaesthesia and the top three general medicine and general surgery journals will be systematically hand searched over a 42-month time period to identify RCTs describing the use of anaesthetic interventions for any invasive proced

SUBMITTER: Elliott L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7045251 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature