Journal article
Quality of reporting in abstracts of RCTs published in emergency medicine journals: a protocol for a systematic survey of the literature
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The quality of reporting of abstracts of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in major general medical journals and in some category-specific journals was shown to be poor before the publication of the ConsolidatedStandards of ReportingTrials (CONSORT) extension for abstracts in 2008, and an improvement in the quality of reporting of abstracts was observed after its publication. The effect of the publication of the CONSORT …
Authors
Germini F; Marcucci M; Fedele M; Galli MG; Mbuagbaw L; Salvatori V; Veronese G; Worster A; Thabane L
Journal
BMJ Open, Vol. 7, No. 4,
Publisher
BMJ
Publication Date
4 2017
DOI
10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014981
ISSN
2044-6055