BACKGROUND The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement is a set of recommendations about what should be included in a more accurate and complete description of observational studies. AIM The aim was to assess the quality of reporting of cross-sectional studies by evaluating the extent to which they adhere to the STROBE statement. MATERIALS AND...

INTRODUCTION Guidance has been published on how best to report randomised controlled trials (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials – CONSORT) and systematic reviews (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses – PRISMA). The aim of this study was to establish to what extent surgical journals formally endorse CONSORT and PRISMA in the respective reporting of randomise...

Strobe rearing reduces direction selectivity in area 17 by altering spatiotemporal receptive-field structure. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2991-3004, 1998. Direction selectivity in simple cells of cat area 17 is linked to spatiotemporal (S-T) receptive-field structure. S-T inseparable receptive fields display gradients of response timing across the receptive field that confer a preferred direction of m...

Design of two RTQPCRs for XMRV-like murine leukemia viruses. © program The variation in MLV gag genes was studied by blasting the nr portion of GenBank with gag of XMRV VP62. BLASTN retrieved 109 MLV gag sequences. The result was treated with the variation analysis program ConSort (Blomberg et al, unpublished) (fig S1 A and B). The selected portion of gag corresponded approximately to the major...

High-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are an integral part of evidence-based medicine. RCTs are the bricks and mortar of high-quality systematic reviews, which are important determinants of health care policy and clinical practice. For published research to be used most effectively, investigators and authors should follow the guidelines for accurate and transparent reporting of RCTs....

Introduction: The Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) checklist has been formulated to improve the reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This investigation aims to determine predictors of CONSORT checklist compliance in the oncology literature. Methods: Eight-hundred and fifty articles assessing interventions in adult breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancer b...

BACKGROUND Sufficiently detailed abstracts of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are important, because readers often base their assessment of a trial solely on information in the abstract. We aimed at comparing reporting quality of RCTs in HIV/AIDS medicine before and after the publication of the 2008 CONSORT extension for abstracts and to investigate factors associated with better reporting ...

OBJECTIVE To systematically assess adherence of randomised trials in surgery to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines for non-pharmacological treatments (NPT). Surgical trials are considered more difficult to design and execute than pharmacological trials. Furthermore, the original CONSORT statement does not address some aspects that are vital to the transparent report...

Background and aims: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of randomized controlled clinical trial reports in diabetes research in Iran and the secondary objective included identifying any associations between CONSORT quality and surrogate markers of article quality, including high and low impact factor and SJR journals. Methods: 184 RCTs studies conducted on Diabetes ...