Poor Citation of Prior Evidence in Hip Fracture Trials

BACKGROUND: Failure to cite prior evidence in the medical literature may result in publication redundancy and inefficient use of research funding. We evaluated trials in which internal fixation was compared with arthroplasty for the treatment of hip fractures in order to determine the extent to which these randomized trials cited all relevant previous trials. METHODS: We searched MEDLINE and Embase for all relevant articles on four topics: …