Quality criteria for randomized controlled studies: obstetrical journal guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most retractions of obstetrics and gynecology manuscripts are because of scientific misconduct. It would be preferable to prevent randomized controlled trials with scientific misconduct from ever appearing in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, rather than to have to retract them later.

Objective

This study aimed to evaluate the policies of obstetrics and gynecology and top medical journals in their author guidelines and electronic submission systems regarding prospective randomized controlled trial registration, ethics committee approval, research protocols, Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trial guidelines, and data sharing and to detect the most common quality criteria requested for randomized controlled trials in these journals.

Study design

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SUBMITTER: Anderson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8324065 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature