[PDF] Top 20 Reporting quality of stepped wedge design randomized trials: a systematic review protocol

... the systematic review will be reviewed for potential participation as ...the review involving searching the chosen databases using the keywords described ... See full document

... In both case studies situated in low-resource settings, we did not find different interpretations of ethical princi- ples and issues that are also encountered in high-income settings. A specific issue we found in both ... 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

... registry-based design uses routinely collected data to ascertain our ...Standard Protocol Items Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) Checklist to guide the reporting of our ... See full document

... the stepped-wedge design, despite three of the studies being of a stepped-wedge design ...the design of a SW-CRT, it is surprising to see so few of the studies investi- ... See full document

... clinical protocol was ...find trials involving participants exclusively from sub-Saharan Africa, so we could not assess the difference of reporting rates of ethical items between studies in ... See full document

... and systematic reviews have evalu- ated the safety, efficacy and acceptability of immediate postpartum insertion of IUDs (within 10 min of delivery of the placenta) compared to delayed postpartum insertion (more ... See full document

... the design in the title or abstract, justification for using the de- sign, acknowledgement of the underlying assumptions of the design, demographic details (country, setting, unit of clustering, type of ... See full document

... event reporting, carer support and ...previous review of 338 articles reporting on health- behaviour interventions ...the stepped wedge design, with a lower requirement for ... See full document

... the reporting quality of SW-CRCTs. The first two systematic reviews assessing SW-CRCTs [32, 33] were performed when few trials had used the ...the quality of reporting; however, ... See full document

... PRO quality using the recently published ISOQOL recommended ...The quality of the reporting was highly ...criteria[49]: reporting of baseline data; statistical methodology for missing data; ... See full document

... Controlled Trials Register, the Cochrane Database, Medline, Cinahl, Embase, PsycInfo, Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar for papers and trial protocols using the following phrases: step wedge, ... See full document

... However, our study results should be interpreted cau- tiously for the following limitations. Firstly, most of the RCTs were done in 1980s and 1990s, and did not em- ploy a standardized outcome assessment tool to measure ... See full document

... of randomized controlled trials: as there are few trials and there is a variation in reported ...factors. Design: We will perform a stepped wedge cluster randomized ... See full document

... the Review Manager soft- ware version ...the trials. If heterogeneity is found in most studies, regarding design and comparator, random effects model meta-analyses will be ... See full document

... example stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT), with four steps and one cluster switching from control (white) to the intervention (light blue) at each time ... See full document

... approximately 2000 hospital medical records on health- care utilization by and clinical outcomes of: 1) neonates who were referred to a pediatrician for neonatal admis- sion, had a birth weight <5th percentile or a ... See full document

... the trials in one disease type were generally small and those in another were large, then this may lead to publication bias across in- ...multiple-indication review is built up from data from existing ... See full document

... Prevention Trials Network 052 (HPTN 052) trial showed that early access to ART prevents onward trans- mission of the virus to the uninfected partner in hetero- sexual HIV-discordant ... See full document

... Some limits need to be discussed regarding the methods used in our research. Because we focused on journals with high impact factors, our findings do not necessarily reflect adherence to PRISMA for systematic ... See full document