| Randomized trials published in higher vs. lower impact journals differ in design, conduct, and analysis. | |
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PMID: 23347852 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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OBJECTIVE: To compare methodological characteristics of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in higher vs. lower impact Core Clinical Journals. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We searched MEDLINE for RCTs published in 2007 in Core Clinical Journals. We randomly sampled 1,140 study reports in a 1:1 ratio in higher (five general medicine journals with the highest total citations in 2007) and lower impact journals. RESULTS: Four hundred sixty-nine RCTs proved eligible: 219 in higher and 250 in lower impact journals. RCTs in higher vs. lower impact journals had larger sample sizes (median, 285 vs. 39), were more likely to receive industry funding (53% vs. 28%), declare concealment of allocation (66% vs. 36%), declare blinding of health care providers (53% vs. 41%) and outcome adjudicators (72% vs. 54%), report a patient-important primary outcome (69% vs. 50%), report subgroup analyses (64% vs. 26%), prespecify subgroup hypotheses (42% vs. 20%), and report a test for interaction (54% vs. 27%); P < 0.05 for all differences. CONCLUSION: RCTs published in higher impact journals were more likely to report methodological safeguards against bias and patient-important outcomes than those published in lower impact journals. However, sufficient limitations remain such that publication in a higher impact journal does not ensure low risk of bias. |
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Malgorzata M Bala; Elie A Akl; Xin Sun; Dirk Bassler; Dominik Mertz; Filip Mejza; Per Olav Vandvik; German Malaga; Bradley C Johnston; Philipp Dahm; Pablo Alonso-Coello; Natalia Diaz-Granados; Sadeesh K Srinathan; Basil Hassouneh; Matthias Briel; Jason W Busse; John J You; Stephen D Walter; Douglas G Altman; Gordon H Guyatt |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of clinical epidemiology Volume: 66 ISSN: 1878-5921 ISO Abbreviation: J Clin Epidemiol Publication Date: 2013 Mar |
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Created Date: 2013-01-25 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8801383 Medline TA: J Clin Epidemiol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 286-95 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Skawinska 8, 31-066 Krakow, Poland. |
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