Assessment of Reporting Quality in Randomised Controlled Trials of Acupuncture for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Using the Consort Statement and Stricta Guidelines

Zeng, Jingchun; Lin, Guohua; Li, Lixia; Lu, Liming; Chen, Chuyun; Lu, Lihong

doi:10.1136/acupmed-2016-011062

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“…The reporting of primary outcomes and estimates of treatment effect on these outcomes have been consistently good, while the least well-reported items were the method of allocation concealment, trial registration and protocol location (Figure 2), perhaps because repositories for the latter two were not available in the earlier epochs in this study. 9,28 This is similar to findings for trials in other diseases, 8,11,16,21,28 although the proportion of stroke RCTs adequately reporting registration and the location of protocol is particularly low. Each item that was poorly reported in 1997-2000, excluding harms and funding, has shown an improvement in completeness of reporting with time.…”

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“…24,25 But concerns remain about waste in stroke research, including the poor reporting of research. 26,27 Other than an investigation of the reporting of a specific intervention for stroke rehabilitation, 28 the last systematic assessment of stroke RCT reporting pre-dated CONSORT. 9 That review found that the standard of reporting was poor, but it improved over time alongside an increase in RCT sample size.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials including people with transient ischaemic attack or stroke: A systematic review

Wilson

Burnett

Moher

et al. 2018

European Stroke Journal

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Purpose To assess the adherence of stroke randomised controlled trials to Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guidelines and investigate the factors that are associated with completeness of reporting. Method We took a random sample from the Cochrane Stroke Group's Trial Register of transient ischaemic attack or stroke randomised controlled trials, published in English in 1997–2016 inclusive. Two reviewers assessed the published report of the final primary results of stroke randomised controlled trials with a 10-point truncated Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting checklist to investigate adherence over time, univariable associations and independent associations with total Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting score in a multiple linear regression model. Findings In this random sample of 177 stroke randomised controlled trials, the mean score on the truncated Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials checklist was 5.8 (SD 2.2); reporting improved from 1997–2000 (4.9 SD 2.0) to 2001–2009 (5.8 SD 2.1) and to 2010–2016 (6.8 SD 2.1). A higher Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials score was independently associated with publication during epochs following a revision of Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guidelines (p < 0.001), journal endorsement of the Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guideline at the time of randomised controlled trial publication (p < 0.001) and modified journal impact factor using median citation distribution (p = 0.012). Discussion Stroke randomised controlled trial reporting to Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials standards has improved over time, but could be better. Conclusion Journal endorsement and enforcement of Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials reporting guidelines could further improve the reporting of stroke randomised controlled trials. Systematic review registration: Registered with PROSPERO (CRD42017072193).

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials including people with transient ischaemic attack or stroke: A systematic review

Wilson

Burnett

Moher

et al. 2018

European Stroke Journal

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“…Our findings are similar to those previously reported, in which the authors found the reporting in acupuncture RCTs for a broad range of topics was generally poor when CON-SORT and STRICTA were used to assess the reporting quality [12][13][14][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Additionally, several studies have shown the overall high rates of RCTs at unclear and high RoB on acupuncture, which are consistent with our findings [16,20,32].…”

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Do acupuncture trials have lower risk of bias over the last five decades? A methodological study of 4 715 randomized controlled trials

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Objective To evaluate the change of the risk of bias (RoB) of acupuncture randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the past five decades. Methods Multiple databases were searched. We included RCTs identified from systematic reviews (SRs) on acupuncture. General characteristics and RoB judgment for each domain were extracted. The proportions of RCTs at high and unclear RoB were calculated and the changes were examined by the Mann-Kendall test. Results We included 368 SRs including 4 715 RCTs. The rates of RCTs at unclear RoB were the highest in allocation concealment (63%), and at the lowest in incomplete outcome data (35%); in the last five decades, statistically significant reductions were found for random sequence generation (P < 0.001) and selective reporting (P = 0.01), and increases for blinding of participants and personnel (P < 0.001), blinding of outcome assessment (P < 0.001) and incomplete outcome data (P = 0.04). For the proportions of RCTs at high RoB, blinding of participants and personnel (47%) and blinding of outcome assessment (35%) were the poorest domains; there were no significant differences in changes for all domains. Conclusions Although improvements concerning unclear risk were observed for random sequence generation and selective reporting, major issues remain for allocation concealment and blinding. It is imperative to use valid randomization, specify how it is conducted, and try to test for selection bias and the success of masking by using the Berger Exner test.

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“…Although there is evidence that STRICTA guidelines have helped to improve acupuncture's reporting, there is still a lot of room for improvement 7 . This has also been seen in recent publications for some specific conditions such as neurological diseases [8][9][10] or cancer 11 , concluding that reporting is still suboptimal in these conditions. However, to our knowledge, there is currently no publications regarding the quality of reporting of acupuncture interventions in COPD trials.…”

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Quality of reporting acupuncture interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Review of adherence to the STRICTA statement

Fernández

Solà-Madurell

et al. 2020

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Background: The quality of reporting of acupuncture interventions is critical to ensure the applicability and reproducibility of acupuncture clinical trials. In the past, different publications have evaluated the quality of reporting of acupuncture interventions for different clinical situations, such as knee osteoarthritis, neurological diseases or cancer. However, this has not been done for acupuncture trials for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Objective: To assess the quality of reporting of acupuncture interventions in trials for COPD. Methods: A total of 11 English and Chinese databases were screened up until May 2019 for randomised or quasi-randomised control trials of acupuncture for COPD. The STRICTA checklist was used to determine the quality of the reporting of acupuncture interventions. Results: A total of 28 trials were included in our review. Out of the 16 STRICTA checklist subitems analysed, only 3 were considered appropriately reported in more than 70% of the trials, while 7 were correctly reported in less than 40%. Conclusion: The adherence to STRICTA guidelines of acupuncture trials for COPD is suboptimal, and future efforts need to be addressed to improve the quality of reporting.

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Assessment of Reporting Quality in Randomised Controlled Trials of Acupuncture for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Using the Consort Statement and Stricta Guidelines

Abstract: The reporting quality of RCTs in acupuncture for post-stroke rehabilitation is unsatisfactory and needs improvement.

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials including people with transient ischaemic attack or stroke: A systematic review

Completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials including people with transient ischaemic attack or stroke: A systematic review

Do acupuncture trials have lower risk of bias over the last five decades? A methodological study of 4 715 randomized controlled trials

Quality of reporting acupuncture interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Review of adherence to the STRICTA statement

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