Effect of an editorial intervention to improve the completeness of reporting of randomised trials: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of an editorial intervention to improve completeness of reporting of reports of randomised trials.

Design

Randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Setting

BMJ Open's quality improvement programme.

Participants

24 manuscripts describing RCTs.

Interventions

We used an R Shiny application to randomise manuscripts (1:1 allocation ratio, blocks of 4) to the intervention (n=12) or control (n=12) group. The intervention was performed by a researcher with expertise in the content of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) and consisted of an evaluation of completeness of reporting of eight core CONSORT items using the submitted checklist to locate information, and the production of a report containing specific r

SUBMITTER: Blanco D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239541 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature