ReviewEuropean stroke journal2018
Completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials including people with transient ischaemic attack or stroke: A systematic review.
Review in European stroke journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- How equitable is digital rehabilitation for people after stroke? A systematic review using an equity approach.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Pooled it
- Selective outcome reporting in randomised controlled trials including participants with stroke or transient ischaemic attack: A systematic review.European stroke journal · 2023Pooled it
- Reporting quality of randomized controlled trials evaluating non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: a systematic review.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2023Pooled it
- A tutorial on methodological studies: the what, when, how and why.BMC medical research methodology · 2020Review
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- Reporting quality of pilot clinical trials in chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis: a methodological survey.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeTo assess the adherence of stroke randomised controlled trials to Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guidelines and investigate the factors that are associated with completeness of reporting.
methodWe took a random sample from the Cochrane Stroke Group's Trial Register of transient ischaemic attack or stroke randomised controlled trials, published in English in 1997-2016 inclusive. Two reviewers assessed the published report of the final primary results of stroke randomised controlled trials with a 10-point truncated Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting checklist to investigate adherence over time, univariable associations and independent associations with total Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting score in a multiple linear regression model.
findingsIn this random sample of 177 stroke randomised controlled trials, the mean score on the truncated Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials checklist was 5.8 (SD 2.2); reporting improved from 1997-2000 (4.9 SD 2.0) to 2001-2009 (5.8 SD 2.1) and to 2010-2016 (6.8 SD 2.1). A higher Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials score was independently associated with publication during epochs following a revision of Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guidelines (p < 0.001), journal endorsement of the Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guideline at the time of randomised controlled trial publication (p < 0.001) and modified journal impact factor using median citation distribution (p = 0.012). DISCUSSION: Stroke randomised controlled trial reporting to Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials standards has improved over time, but could be better.
conclusionJournal endorsement and enforcement of Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guidelines could further improve the reporting of stroke randomised controlled trials.
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