reporting quality assessment of randomized controlled trials published in nephrology urology monthly journal

Reporting Quality Assessment of Randomized Controlled Trials Published in Nephrology Urology Monthly Journal

CONTEXT Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are important tools for evidence-based health care decisions. It is, therefore, important that they be conducted and reported with the highest possible standards. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reporting quality of the RCTs published in nephrology urology monthly journal and to examine whether there was a change over time in the reporting q...

reporting quality assessment of randomized controlled trials published in hepatitis monthly

Reporting Quality Assessment of Randomized Controlled Trials Published in Hepatitis Monthly

Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Research Center for Prevention of Oral and Dental Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Mahmood Salesi, Research Center for Prevention of Oral and Dental Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel/Fax: +98-91968...

Quality Assessment of Randomized Controlled Trials Published in the Korean Journal of Urology Over the Past 20 Years

PURPOSE Because low-quality trials may lead to erroneous conclusions, quality assessments are necessary. Thus, in this study, we scrutinized randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in the Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) to assess their quantity and quality. MATERIALS AND METHODS Upon extracting RCTs from all articles published in the KJU from 1991 to 2010, assessments were made on the b...

Adherence to the CONSORT Statement in the Reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials on Pharmacological Interventions Published in Iranian Medical Journals

Background: Among manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) form the backbone of evidence-based medicine. Hence, their protocol should be designed rigorously and their results should be reported clearly. To improve the quality of RCT reporting, researchers developed the CONSORT Statement in 1996 and updated it in 2010. This study was designed to assess th...

Assessment of the Quality of Reporting in Abstracts of Randomized Controlled Trials Published in Five Leading Chinese Medical Journals

BACKGROUND Clear, transparent and sufficiently detailed abstracts of randomized trials (RCTs), published in journal articles are important because readers will often base their initial assessment of a trial on such information. However, little is known about the quality of reporting in abstracts of RCTs published in medical journals in China. METHODS We identified RCTs abstracts from 5 five l...