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ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2014

Pharmacy journal abstracts published in PubMed that abide by the CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines.

Daniel A Blair, Peter J Hughes, Thomas W Woolley

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Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel A Blairdblair@samford.edu , Drug Information Specialty Resident, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; (corresponding author), pjhughes@samford.edu , Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; twwoole@samford.edu , Professor of Statistics, Brock School of Business; Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229.
Peter J Hughesdblair@samford.edu , Drug Information Specialty Resident, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; (corresponding author), pjhughes@samford.edu , Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; twwoole@samford.edu , Professor of Statistics, Brock School of Business; Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229.
Thomas W Woolleydblair@samford.edu , Drug Information Specialty Resident, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; (corresponding author), pjhughes@samford.edu , Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; twwoole@samford.edu , Professor of Statistics, Brock School of Business; Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine the proportion of abstracts in pharmacy journals that are prepared according to the CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) criteria for abstracts. Certain abstracts for randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) indexed in PubMed were eligible for inclusion, with the primary endpoint being median overall compliance to CONSORT recommendations for abstracts. A total of 63 RCT abstracts were included in the analysis, with only 56% of the recommended CONSORT items represented in the sample. It is recommended that pharmacy journals encourage authors to follow CONSORT recommendations for abstracts when submitting RCTs for publication.

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PharmacyPubMedAbstracting and IndexingGuideline AdherenceGuidelines as TopicHumansPeriodicals as TopicPublishingRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID24860268
PMCPMC3988759

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