Outcome reporting recommendations for clinical trial protocols and reports: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinicians, patients, and policy-makers rely on published evidence from clinical trials to help inform decision-making. A lack of complete and transparent reporting of the investigated trial outcomes limits reproducibility of results and knowledge synthesis efforts, and contributes to outcome switching and other reporting biases. Outcome-specific extensions for the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT-Outcomes) and Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT-Outcomes) reporting guidelines are under development to facilitate harmonized reporting of outcomes in trial protocols and reports. The aim of this review was to identify and synthesize existing guidance for trial outcome reporting to inform extension development.

Meth

SUBMITTER: Butcher NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341657 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature