CONSORT statement requires closer examination
Why is this work in the frame?
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
The three-model screen
all 1,000 screened works →All three models called this out of scope.
Letter to the editor arguing about how CONSORT reporting guidance is applied; commentary about research reporting practice, not a study of it.
This letter comments on CONSORT reporting guidance and research reporting practice.
Letter discussing CONSORT trial-reporting guidance, commentary on research reporting rather than empirical metaresearch.
Abstract
EDITOR—Several correspondents have criticised the HOPE investigators for focusing on relative effects when the absolute benefit was very small. Twisselmann, in her summary of many responses on the website, comments: “It was noted that only the relative risk reduction was given in the study. This should have been accompanied by data on absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat and even number needed to harm (as per CONSORT guidelines).”1 This sentence may …
Stored with the screening record, where it is evidence for the labels above.
The record
- Venue
- BMJ
- Topic
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Canadian institutions
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- Funders
- —
- Keywords
- Statement (logic)Absolute (philosophy)SentenceNumber needed to treatAbsolute risk reductionConsolidated Standards of Reporting TrialsHarmRelative riskMedicinePsychologyActuarial sciencePolitical sciencePhilosophyAlternative medicineBusinessLawEpistemologyEnvironmental healthSocial psychologyLinguisticsPathologyConfidence intervalInternal medicine
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes