Authors
Benjamin Speich, Erika Mann, Christof M Schönenberger, Katie Mellor, Alexandra N Griessbach, Paula Dhiman, Pooja Gandhi, Szimonetta Lohner, Arnav Agarwal, Ayodele Odutayo, Iratxe Puebla, Alejandra Clark, An-Wen Chan, Michael M Schlussel, Philippe Ravaud, David Moher, Matthias Briel, Isabelle Boutron, Sara Schroter, Sally Hopewell
Publication date
2023/6/1
Journal
JAMA Network Open
Volume
6
Issue
6
Pages
e2317651-e2317651
Publisher
American Medical Association
Description
Importance
Numerous studies have shown that adherence to reporting guidelines is suboptimal.
Objective
To evaluate whether asking peer reviewers to check if specific reporting guideline items were adequately reported would improve adherence to reporting guidelines in published articles.
Design, Setting, and Participants
Two parallel-group, superiority randomized trials were performed using manuscripts submitted to 7 biomedical journals (5 from theBMJPublishing Group and 2 from the Public Library of Science) as the unit of randomization, with peer reviewers allocated to the intervention or control group.
Interventions
The first trial (CONSORT-PR) focused on manuscripts that presented randomized clinical trial (RCT) results and reported following the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guideline, and the second trial (SPIRIT-PR) focused on manuscripts that presented RCT protocols and …
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