[PDF] Top 20 Quality of Reporting of Randomized, Controlled Trials in Cerebral Palsy

... of controlled trials that compared 2 different intensities (hours/week) of the same type of ...“cerebral palsy”; various synonyms for PT such as “physical therapy tech- niques”; ... See full document

... Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the preferred study design for comparing therapeutic interventions in medicine; they are considered the cornerstone of evidence- based ...poor reporting ... See full document

... high-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and RCT itself, especially those with double-blind placebo controls, are commonly regarded the highest level of evidence in judging the ... See full document

... Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are widely ac- cepted as the ‘gold standard’ for accumulating strong evidence for any health care ...Moreover, quality of reporting is essential for ... See full document

... more randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in melasma have recently ...the reporting quality of RCTs is in melasma studies conducted in ... See full document

... As presented in Table 2, the analysis based on the CONSORT statement showed a sub-optimal reporting qual- ity for the included RCTs. Among the 37 items of the CONSORT checklist, only ten were suf fi ciently ... See full document

... A systematic and comprehensive literature review was conducted with the aim of identifying published RCTs of RSA conducted in China. We searched the following bibliographic databases: Embase (1980 to May 2014), Medline ... See full document

... median of four items judged adequate (IQR 4 to 5) Fig. 2 presents the final score for each RCT report. Table 1 presents the number of times that each item was judged adequate. Additional file 2 presents the ... See full document

... The CONSORT statement does not include a detailed protocol deviation item checklist. On the other hand, the report by Sweetman and Doig [10] classified protocol deviations into five items, i.e. enrollment, randomization, ... See full document

... and reporting of RCTs should follow specific guidelines in order to provide valid results and avoid com- mon pitfalls ...The reporting of these data is therefore critical for an accurate appraisal of the ... See full document

... about quality of reporting of RCTs, an international group of scientists and editors developed and published in 1996, a common checklist for items to include in reports of RCTs, known as the Con- solidated ... See full document

... harms reporting score (THRS) was ...the quality of harms reporting score was significantly higher for RCTs involving biologicals (P= ...regional/national trials and trials involving ≤ ... See full document

... the quality of these meta-analyses into question, however, and the likely po- tential for publication bias suggests a need for additional research on the ... See full document

... 65 RCT reports referring to QOL, published from Japan during 1970–2003, were found. We excluded 19 of these for not being RCTs (n = 4), not having an abstract (n = 1), not reporting on QOL (n = 12) or for being a ... See full document

... the quality of ...the quality of abstracts describing medical randomized controlled trials both before and after the implementation of the CONSORT extension statement for abstracts in ... See full document

... the quality of SWD trial reports based on the CONSORT guidelines or CONSORT extension to cluster RCTs; 2) to assess the completeness of reporting of SWD trial abstracts using the CONSORT extension for ... See full document

... the quality of included studies using the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions ...5) Reporting bias: Report the results of the study selectively; 6) Other bias: In addition to the above ... See full document

... CP: Cerebral palsy; COP: Center of pressure; dB: Decibels; EPmax: Maximum expiratory pressure; FAPESP: Fundação de amparo á pesquisa do estado de são paulo; GMFCS: Gross motor function classification ... See full document

... randomised controlled trials including children 3 to ≤ 18 years with (i) Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) or Cerebral Palsy (CP) (Gross Motor Function Classification System Level 1) ... See full document

... participants randomized (73%; 253/345) and benefits when interpreting the trial results (55%; ...190/345). Reporting of methodological quality or key features of trial design and trial results were ... See full document