Citation

Asghari Jafarabadi M, Sadeghi-Bazrgani H, Dianat I. Int. J. Inj. Control Safe. Promot. 2018; 25(2): 222-228.

Affiliation

Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Department of Occupational Health , Tabriz University of Medical Sciences , Tabriz , Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17457300.2017.1416479

PMID

29457920

Abstract

To evaluate the quality of reporting in published randomized controlled trials (RTCs) in the field of fall injuries. The 188 RTCs published between 2001 and 2011, indexed in EMBASE and Medline databases were extracted through searching by appropriate keywords and EMTree classification terms. The evaluation trustworthiness was assured through parallel evaluations of two experts in epidemiology and biostatistics. About 40%-75% of papers had problems in reporting random allocation method, allocation concealment, random allocation implementation, blinding and similarity among groups, intention to treat and balancing benefits and harms. Moreover, at least 10% of papers inappropriately/not reported the design, protocol violations, sample size justification, subgroup/adjusted analyses, presenting flow diagram, drop outs, recruitment time, baseline data, suitable effect size on outcome, ancillary analyses, limitations and generalizability. Considering the shortcomings found and due to the importance of the RCTs for fall injury prevention programmes, their reporting quality should be improved.

Language: en

Keywords

CONSORT; Fall injuries; publishing standards; randomized controlled trial; reporting quality