Comments on "Reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts in the seven highest-ranking anesthesiology
Rohan Kumar Ochani1, Asim Shaikh2, Naser Yamani3
1Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Baba-e-Urdu Road, Saddar, Karachi, Pakistan. rohanochani@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard in assessing treatment regimens, and since abstracts may be the only part of a paper that a physician reads, accurate reporting of data in abstracts is essential. The CONSORT checklist for abstracts was designed to standardize data reporting; however, for papers submitted to anesthesiology journals, the level of adherence to the CONSORT checklist for abstracts is unknown. Therefore, we commend Janackovic and Puljak for their efforts in determining the adherence of reports of trials in the highest-impact anesthesiology journals between 2014 and 2016. The results of their study are extremely important; however, we believe that that study had some methodological limitations, which we discuss in this manuscript.
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