Table 3 |
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Quality of reporting of abstracts at BURNS annual meeting 2000 and 2008 according to the Timmer instrument for randomized-control trials |
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Timmer instrument for RCTs |
2000 |
2008 |
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|
|
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|
oral |
poster |
oral |
Poster |
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|
|
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|
N |
% |
n |
% |
n |
% |
n |
% |
|
|
|
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|
Question/objective sufficiently described? |
5 |
56 |
4 |
100 |
7 |
100 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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|
Design evident and appropriate to answer study question? |
8 |
89 |
3 |
75 |
6 |
86 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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|
Subject characteristics sufficiently described? |
7 |
78 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
71 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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|
Subjects appropriate to the study question? |
7 |
78 |
3 |
75 |
6 |
86 |
1 |
50 |
|
|
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|
Controls used and appropriate? (if no control, check no) |
9 |
100 |
4 |
100 |
7 |
100 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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|
Method of subject selection described and appropriate? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
29 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
If random allocation to treatment groups was possible, is it described? (if not possible, check n/a) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
25 |
1 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
If blinding of investigators to intervention was possible, is it reported? (If not possible, n/a) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
If blinding of subjects to intervention was possible, is it reported? (If not possible, n/a)1 |
2 |
22 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
43 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
Outcome measure well defined and robust to measurement bias? Means of assessment reported? |
7 |
78 |
4 |
100 |
5 |
71 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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|
Confounding accounted for? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
Sample size adequate? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
Post hoc power calculations or confidence intervals reported for statistically non significant results? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
Statistical analyses appropriate? |
2 |
22 |
1 |
25 |
3 |
43 |
1 |
50 |
|
|
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|
Statistical tests stated? |
0 |
0 |
1 |
25 |
1 |
14 |
1 |
50 |
|
|
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|
Exact p-values or confidence intervals stated? |
7 |
78 |
2 |
50 |
7 |
100 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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|
Attrition of subjects and reason for attrition recorded? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
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|
Results reported in sufficient detail? |
7 |
78 |
3 |
75 |
7 |
100 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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|
Do the results support the conclusions? |
9 |
100 |
4 |
100 |
7 |
100 |
2 |
100 |
|
|
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Sum (items 1-19) |
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Knobloch et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2011 11:161 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-11-161 |
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