Graduate Program in Dentistry, Meridional Faculty/IMED, 304 Senador Pinheiro Machado Street, 99070-220 Passo Fundo, Brazil; Graduate Program in Dentistry, Federal University of Pelotas, 457 Gonçalves Chaves Street, Pelotas, Brazil; The Bias, Reporting, Implementation, Guidance, ETHics, IntEgrity of and Reproducibility in Research (BRIGHTER) Meta Research Group.
Graduate Program in Dentistry, Federal University of Pelotas, 457 Gonçalves Chaves Street, Pelotas, Brazil; Center of Biological and Health Sciences, University of Vale do Taquari -UNIVATES, Lajeado, Brazil.
J Clin Epidemiol. 2020 Jun;122:20-26. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.020. Epub 2020 Feb 15.
This study aimed to assess if the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) endorsement by journals is associated with improved completeness of reporting of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in dentistry.
We searched for RCTs in dentistry indexed/published on PubMed in 2017. Study selection was undertaken by two reviewers independently. Data related to the general characteristics, reports of methodological characteristics, and whether the trial report was published in a journal that endorses the CONSORT Statement were extracted by two reviewers. Descriptive statistics were used to present the data surrounding the general and methodological characteristics of the included studies. We explored differences in the reporting of 12 methodological items between journals that endorsed CONSORT and those that did not.
Five hundred and thirty three reports were included. The main area was implant dentistry with 101 articles (18.9%). Most studies had a parallel design (75.8%), performed at a single center (89.3%) and presenting two groups of comparison (75.6%). The median number of sample size was 50 (interquartile range: 31-90). Six of the 12 methodologic items were reported more often for RCTs published in journals that endorsed CONSORT than in journals that did not.
CONSORT endorsement by journals is linked to improvement in the quality of RCT reports in dentistry.
本研究旨在评估期刊对 CONSORT 报告标准的认可是否与牙科学随机临床试验（RCT）报告的完整性的提高有关。
我们在 2017 年在 PubMed 上搜索牙科学的 RCT。由两位评审员独立进行研究选择。由两位评审员提取与一般特征、方法学特征报告以及试验报告是否发表在认可 CONSORT 声明的期刊有关的数据。使用描述性统计来呈现纳入研究的一般和方法学特征的数据。我们探讨了认可 CONSORT 和不认可 CONSORT 的期刊之间 12 项方法学项目报告的差异。
共纳入 533 份报告。主要领域是植入牙科，有 101 篇文章（18.9%）。大多数研究采用平行设计（75.8%），在单一中心进行（89.3%），并呈现两组比较（75.6%）。样本量中位数为 50（四分位距：31-90）。在认可 CONSORT 的期刊上发表的 RCT 报告中，有 6 项方法学项目的报告比不认可 CONSORT 的期刊更为常见。
期刊对 CONSORT 的认可与牙科学 RCT 报告质量的提高有关。
