Blanco David, Biggane Alice M, Cobo Erik
Statistics and Operations Research Department, Barcelona Tech, Barcelona, Spain.
INSERM, U1153 Epidemiology and Biostatistics Sorbonne Paris Cité Research Center (CRESS), Methods of Therapeutic Evaluation of Chronic Diseases (METHODS) Team, Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, F-75014, France.
Trials. 2018 Jan 29;19(1):80. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2475-0.
Compulsory submission of a checklist from the relevant reporting guideline is one of the most widespread journal requirements aiming to improve completeness of reporting. However, the current suboptimal levels of adherence to reporting guidelines observed in the literature may indicate that this journal policy is not having a significant effect.
We explored whether authors provided the appropriate CONSORT checklist extension for their study and whether there were inconsistencies between what authors claimed on the submitted checklist and what was actually reported in the published paper. We randomly selected 12 randomized trials from three journals that provide the originally submitted checklist and analyzed six core CONSORT items. Only one paper used the appropriate checklist extension and had no inconsistencies between what was claimed in the submitted checklist and what was reported in the published paper.
Journals should take further actions to take full advantage of the requirement for the submission of fulfilled CONSORT checklists, thus ensuring that these checklists reflect what is reported in the manuscript.
根据相关报告指南强制提交清单是期刊最普遍的要求之一，旨在提高报告的完整性。然而，文献中目前观察到的对报告指南的依从性欠佳，可能表明该期刊政策并未产生显著效果。
我们探究了作者是否为其研究提供了合适的CONSORT清单扩展，以及作者在提交的清单上所宣称的内容与发表论文中实际报告的内容之间是否存在不一致。我们从三本提供原始提交清单的期刊中随机选取了12项随机试验，并分析了CONSORT的六个核心项目。只有一篇论文使用了合适的清单扩展，并且提交清单中所宣称的内容与发表论文中报告的内容之间没有不一致。
期刊应采取进一步行动，充分利用提交完整CONSORT清单的要求，从而确保这些清单反映稿件中所报告的内容。
