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Impact of a short version of the CONSORT checklist for peer reviewers to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials published in biomedical journals: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

2020; BMJ; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035114

2044-6055

Benjamin Speich, Sara Schroter, Matthias Briel, David Moher, Iratxe Puebla, Alejandra Clark, Michael Maia Schlüssel, Philippe Ravaud, Isabelle Boutron, Sally Hopewell,

Health and Medical Research Impacts

Transparent and accurate reporting is essential for readers to adequately interpret the results of a study. Journals can play a vital role in improving the reporting of published randomised controlled trials (RCTs). We describe an RCT to evaluate our hypothesis that asking peer reviewers to check whether the most important and poorly reported CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) items are adequately reported will result in higher adherence to CONSORT guidelines in published RCTs.