Abstracts reporting of HIV/AIDS randomized controlled trials in general medicine and infectious diseases journals: completeness to date and improvement in the quality since CONSORT extension for abstracts

Abstracts reporting of HIV/AIDS randomized controlled trials in general medicine and infectious diseases journals: completeness to date and improvement in the quality since CONSORT extension for abstracts

Abstract Background Sufficiently detailed abstracts of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are important, because readers often base their assessment of a trial solely on information in the abstract. We aimed at comparing reporting quality of RCTs in HIV/AIDS medicine before and after the publicatio...

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Main Authors: Jean Joel R. Bigna, Jean Jacques N. Noubiap, Serra Lem Asangbeh, Lewis N. Um, Paule Sandra D. Sime, Elvis Temfack, Mathurin Cyrille Tejiokem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Abstract
Randomized controlled trial
CONSORT
HIV
AIDS
Systematic review
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-016-0243-y

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