Incomplete descriptions of oral nutritional supplement interventions in reports of randomised controlled trials

Using the CONSORT statement to evaluate the completeness of reporting of addiction randomised trials: a cross-sectional review

“…Moher et al argue that, “inadequate reporting borders on unethical practice when biased results receive false credibility” 2. Previous studies have found that clinical trial interventions are insufficiently reported to permit replication or to allow physicians to enact the intervention in the clinical setting 3 4. Others have found that the poor reporting of systematic reviews does not even permit the initial searches to be replicated 5.…”

Drug–drug interaction trials incompletely described drug interventions in ClinicalTrials.gov and published articles: an observational study

“…All HTA reports on drug interventions from this study had information on the setting, and 73% noted the intervention provider [5], which is in contrast to our results, where we found remarkably lower rates in both the registry and the publications. However, we highlight that a comparative evaluation of studies investigating intervention description is limited because of the reporting of interventions different than drugs [27,39] or summarized reporting for both drug and nondrug treatments or use of different checklists with different levels of details provided for each assessed component [4e6,36].…”

“…The data were extracted from the Descriptive Information section for all items except 10 and 12, which could be described only following the trial completion and were abstracted from the tab Study Results. We did not follow binary (yes/no) scoring from other studies using TIDieR items because they may decrease interrater reliability [27] but specified the differences in the registered and published data for individual TIDieR items. According to the definitions for the protocol registration data elements for interventional and observational studies in ClinicalTrials.gov [28], we hypothesized that most details on interventions would be posted under the Intervention element, including Intervention Type, Name(s) and Description, or under the Arm Description to differentiate each arm from other arms.…”

High Adherence to Oral Nutrition Supplements Prescribed by Dietitians: A Cross‐Sectional Study on Hospital Outpatients

“…For the studied population, it was most common to consume the ONS in between meals rather than with meals or instead of meals. This might be of importance to achieve high adherence, but it is difficult to gain an overview of ONS intervention procedures since information about how the ONS were to be taken is often lacking in randomized controlled trials on ONS . In the review by Hubbard et al, no differences in compliance to ONS prescriptions were seen between studies reporting having given instructions about when to take the ONS compared with those that did not include such information …”