Classification and appraisal of the level of clinical evidence of publications from the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons for the past 10 years

INTRODUCTION: Increasing evidence is placed on the evidence-based quality of publications. We classified the publication type and assessed the reporting quality of the highest evidence level publications from the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons between 1998 and 2007. METHODS: All publications from Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons issues in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery from 1998 to 2007 were classified by study type and …