Uniform requirements for manuscripts, CONSORT statement and more informative abstracts: three fundamental papers for improving the quality of medical publications

Effectiveness of electrical stimulation on rehabilitation after ligament and meniscal injuries: a systematic review

“…The Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement is a checklist of items that the reports on clinical trials must follow. The CONSORT Statement, 36 which was created in 1999 and updated in 2010, aims to improve reports on randomized clinical trials, help authors to recognize suitable study designs and assess study validity. Most of the studies included in this review did not follow the precepts of the CONSORT Statement: there was no reporting of allocation concealment in any study; none of them reported sample size calculation; and, of the studies with drop-outs, only one mentioned intention-to-treat analysis.…”