Do the CONSORT and STRICTA Checklists Improve the Reporting Quality of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Randomized Controlled Trials Published in Chinese Journals? A Systematic Review and Analysis of Trends.

BACKGROUND:We investigated whether there had been an improvement in the quality of reporting for randomised controlled trials of acupuncture and moxibustion published in Chinese journals. We compared the compliance rate for the quality of reporting following the publication of both the STRICTA and C...

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Main Authors: Bin Ma, Zhi-min Chen, Jia-ke Xu, Ya-nan Wang, Kuang-yang Chen, Fa-yong Ke, Jun-qiang Niu, Li Li, Cheng-ben Huang, Jian-xun Zheng, Jia-Hui Yang, Qian-ge Zhu, Ya-ping Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4726495?pdf=render