Completeness of reporting and risks of overstating impact in cluster randomised trials: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Overstating the impact of interventions through incomplete or inaccurate reporting can lead to inappropriate scale-up of interventions with low impact. Accurate reporting of the impact of interventions is of great importance in global health research to protect scarce resources. In global health, the cluster randomised trial design is commonly used to evaluate complex, multicomponent interventions, and outcomes are often binary. Complete reporting of impact for binary outcomes means reporting both relative and absolute measures. We did a systematic review to assess reporting practices and potential to overstate impact in contemporary cluster randomised trials with binary primary outcome. We included all reports registered in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials of two-arm par

SUBMITTER: Turner EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994534 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature