2013 Program and Abstracts
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Sunday, September 8
Authorship
Moderator: Drummond Rennie (United States)
Too Much of a Good Thing? A Study of Prolific Authors
Elizabeth Wager, Sanjay Singhvi, Sabine Kleinert (United Kingdom)
Deciding Authorship: Survey Findings From Clinical Investigators, Journal Editors, Publication Planners, and Medical Writers
Ana Marušić, Darko Hren, Ananya Bhattacharya, Matthew Cahill, Juli Clark, Maureen Garrity, Thomas Gesell, Susan Glasser, John Gonzalez, Samantha Gothelf, Carolyn Hustad, Mary-Margaret Lannon, Neil Lineberry, Bernadette Mansi, LaVerne Mooney, Teresa Pena (Croatia, United States, United Kingdom)
Multiauthorship Articles and Subsequent Citations: Does More Yield More?
Joseph Wislar, Marie McVeigh, Annette Flanagin, Mary Lange, Howard Bauchner (United States)
Abstract | Article published in BMC Medicine 2014, 12:197. doi:10.1186/s12916-014-0197-z.
Citations
Moderator: Ginny Barbour (United Kingdom)
Coercive Citation and the Impact Factor in the Business Category of the Web of Science
Tobias Opthof, Loet Leydesdorff, Ruben Coronel (Netherlands)
Do Views Online Drive Citations?
Sushrut Jangi, Jeffrey A. Eddowes, Jennifer M. Zeis, Jessica R. Ippolito, Edward W. Campion (United States)
Uncited or Poorly Cited Articles in the Cardiovascular Literature
Ruizhi Shi, Isuru Ranasinghe, Aakriti Gupta, Behnood Bikdeli, Ruijun Chen, Natdanai Tee Punnanithinont, Julianna F. Lampropulos, Joseph S. Ross, Harlan M. Krumholz (United States)
Peer Review
Moderator: Edward W. Campion (United States)
Engaging Patients and Stakeholders in Scientific Peer Review of Research Applications: Lessons From PCORI’s First Cycle of Funding
Rachael Fleurence, Joe Selby, Laura P. Forsythe, Anne Beal, Martin Duenas, Lori Frank, John P. A. Ioannidis, Michael S. Lauer (United States)
Editorial Triage: Potential Impact
Deborah Levine, Alexander Bankier, Mark Schweitzer, Albert de Roos, David C. Madoff, David Kallmes, Douglas S. Katz, Elkan Halpern, Herbert Y. Kressel (United States, Canada, Netherlands)
Authors’ Assessment of the Impact and Value of Statistical Review in a General Medical Journal
Catharine Stack, John Cornell, Steven Goodman, Michael Griswold, Eliseo Guallar, Christine Laine, Russell Localio, Alicia Ludwig, Anne Meibohm, Cynthia Mulrow, Mary Beth Schaeffer, Darren Taichman, Arlene Weissman (United States)
Mentored Peer Review of Standardized Manuscripts as an Educational Tool
Victoria S. S. Wong, Roy E. Strowd III, Rebeca Aragón-García, Mitchell S. V. Elkind (United States)
The Reporting of Randomized Trials: Changes After Peer Review (CAPRI)
Sally Hopewell, Gary Collins, Ly-Mee Yu, Jonathan Cook, Isabelle Boutron, Larissa Shamseer, Milensu Shanyinde, Rose Wharton, Douglas G. Altman (United Kingdom, France, Canada)
Ethical Issues and Misconduct
Moderator: Peter Gøtzsche (Denmark)
Identical or Nearly So: Duplicate Publication as a Separate Publication Type in PubMed
Mario Malički, Ana Utrobii, Ana Marušić (Croatia)
Fate of Articles That Warranted Retraction Due to Ethical Concerns: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
Nadia Elia, Elizabeth Wager, Martin R. Tramèr (Switzerland, United Kingdom)
Value of Plagiarism Detection for Manuscripts Submitted to a Medical Specialty Journal
Heidi L. Vermette, Rebecca S. Benner, James R. Scott (United States)
Implementation of Plagiarism Screening for the PLOS Journals
Elizabeth Flavall, Virginia Barbour, Rachel Bernstein, Katie Hickling, Michael Morris (United States, United Kingdom)
Publication Ethics: 16 Years of COPE
Irene Hames, Charon A. Pierson, Natalie E. Ridgeway, Virginia Barbour (United States, United Kingdom)
Monday, September 9
World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Business Meeting
Challenges in Editorial Selection Posed by Current Science
Phil Campbell (United Kingdom)
Bias
Moderator: Lisa Bero (United States)
Underreporting of Conflicts of Interest Among Trialists: A Cross-sectional Study
Kristine Rasmussen, Jeppe Schroll, Peter C. Gøtzsche, Andreas Lundh (Denmark)
Outcome Reporting Bias in Trials (ORBIT II): An Assessment of Harm Outcomes
Jamie Kirkham, Pooja Saini, Yoon Loke, Douglas G. Altman, Carrol Gamble, Paula Williamson (United Kingdom)
Systematic Review of Evidence for Selective Reporting of Analyses
Kerry Dwan, Paula R. Williamson, Carrol Gamble, Julian P. T. Higgins, Jonathan A. C. Sterne, Douglas G. Altman, Mike Clarke, Jamie J. Kirkham (United Kingdom)
Impact of Spin in the Abstract on the Interpretation of Randomized Controlled Trials in the Field of Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Isabelle Boutron, Douglas G. Altman, Sally Hopewell, Francisco Vera-Badillo, Ian Tannock, Philippe Ravaud (France, United Kingdom, Canada)
Publication Bias
Moderator: Douglas G. Altman (United Kingdom)
Authors’ Reasons for Unpublished Research Presented at Biomedical Conferences: A Systematic Review
Roberta W. Scherer, Cesar Ugarte-Gil (United States)
Role of Editorial and Peer Review Processes in Publication Bias: Analysis of Drug Trials Submitted to 8 Medical Journals
Marlies van Lent, John Overbeke, Henk Jan Out (Netherlands)
Accessing Internal Company Documents for Research: Where Are They?
L. Susan Wieland, Lainie Rutkow, S. Swaroop Vedula, Christopher N. Kaufmann, Lori Rosman, Claire Twose, Nirosha Mahendraratnam, Kay Dickersin (United States)
Trial Registration
Moderator: David Moher (Canada)
Publication Agreements or “Gag Orders”? Compliance of Publication Agreements With Good Publication Practice 2 for Trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
Serina Stretton, Rebecca A. Lew, Luke C. Carey, Julie A. Ely, Cassandra Haley, Janelle R. Keys, Julie A. Monk, Mark Snape, Mark J. Woolley, Karen L. Woolley (Australia)
Reporting of Results in Clinicaltrials.gov and Published Articles: A Cross-sectional Study
Jessica E. Becker, Harlan M. Krumholz, Gal Ben-Josef, Joseph S. Ross (United States)
Beyond Feasibility: Assessing the ClinicalTrials.gov Results Database
Deborah A. Zarin, Tony Tse, Heather D. Dobbins (United States)
Poster Sessions and Visit Exhibits
Data/Content Sharing, Availability, and Access
Moderator: Fiona Godlee (United Kingdom)
How Does the Availability of Research Data Change With Time Since Publication?
Timothy H. Vines, Arianne Y. K. Albert, Rose L. Andrew, Florence Débarre, Dan G. Bock, Michelle T. Franklin, Kimberly J. Gilbert, Jean-Sébastien Moore, Sébastien Renaut, Diana J. Rennison (Canada)
Reproducible Research: Biomedical Researchers’ Willingness to Share Information to Enable Others to Reproduce Their Results
Michael Griswold, Christine Laine, Cynthia Mulrow, Mary Beth Schaeffer, Catherine Stack (United States)
Clinical Research Data Repositories and the Public Disclosure of Trial Data
Karmela Krleža-Jeri´c, Lee-Anne Ufholz (Canada)
The Democratization of Knowledge: A Supplement to Open Access
Hans Petter Fosseng, Hege Underdal, Magne Nylenna (Norway)
EQUATOR Annual Lecture
Kay Dickersin (United States)
Tuesday, September 10
Whither Peer Review Research? Analysis of Study Design, Publication Output, and Funding of Research Presented at Peer Review Congresses
Mario Malički, Erik von Elm, Ana Marušić (Croatia, Switzerland)
The Peer Review Congresses
Drummond Rennie (United States)
Quality of Trials
Moderator: Howard Bauchner (United States)
Impact of a Systematic Review on Subsequent Clinical Research: The Case of the Prevention of Propofol Injection Pain
Céline Habre, Nadia Elia, Daniel M. Pöpping, Martin R. Tramèr (Switzerland, Germany)
Publication of Randomized Controlled Trials That Were Discontinued: An International Multicenter Cohort Study
Benjamin Kasenda, Erik von Elm, Anette Blümle, Yuki Tomonaga, John You, Mihaela Stegert, Theresa Bengough, Kelechi Kalu Olu, Matthias Briel, for the DISCO Study Group (Switzerland, Germany, Canada)
Terminated Trials in ClinicalTrials.gov: Characteristics and Evaluation of Reasons for Termination
Katelyn DiPiazza, Rebecca J. Williams, Deborah A. Zarin, Tony Tse (United States)
Poster Sessions and Visit Exhibits
Quality of Reporting Trials
Moderator: Brian Haynes (Canada)
A Review of Registration and Reporting of “Continuish” Outcomes in Randomized Trials
Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, Allison Hirst, Ly-Mee Yu, Alice Andrews, Gary Collins, Rose Wharton, Milensu Shanyinde, Susan J. Dutton, Omar Omar, Sally Hopewell, Joshua Wallace, Jackie Birks, Nicola Williams, Eric Ohuma, Douglas G. Altman (United Kingdom, United States)
Reporting of Crossover Trials on Medical Interventions for Glaucoma
Tsung Yu, Tianjing Li, Barbara Hawkins, Kay Dickersin (United States)
Characterization of Trials Designed Primarily for Marketing Purposes Rather Than Addressing Genuine Clinical Questions: A Descriptive Study
Virginia Barbour, Druin Burch, Fiona Godlee, Carl Heneghan, Richard Lehman, Joseph Ross, Sara Schroter (United Kingdom, United States)
Reporting Guidelines
Moderator: Erik von Elm (Switzerland)
Consensus-Based Case Report Guidelines Development: CARE Guidelines
Joel J. Gagnier, Gunver Kienle, Douglas G. Altman, David Moher, Harold Sox, David Riley, and the CARE Group (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada)
Poor Description of Nonpharmacological Interventions: A Remediable Barrier to Use in Practice?
Tammy Hoffmann, Chrissy Erueti, Paul Glasziou (Australia)
Abstract
Impact of Adding a Limitations Section in Abstracts of Systematic Reviews on Reader Interpretation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Amélie Yavchitz, Philippe Ravaud, Sally Hopewell, Isabelle Boutron (France, United Kingdom)
Beyond STARD: Characterizing the Presence of Important Elements in Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reports
Natasha Cuk, Carmen C. Wolfe, Douglas G. Altman, David L. Schriger, Richelle J. Cooper (United States, United Kingdom)
Identifying Barriers to Uptake and Implementation of CONSORT
Larissa Shamseer, Laura Weeks, Lucy Turner, Sharon Straus, Jeremy Grimshaw, David Moher (Canada)
WebCONSORT Impact of Using a Web-Based Tool to Improve the Reporting of Randomized Trials: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Sally Hopewell, Isabelle Boutron, Douglas G. Altman, David Moher, Victor Montori, Virginia Barbour, David Schriger, Philippe Ravaud (United Kingdom, France, Canada, United States)
Postpublication Access, Dissemination, And Exchange
Moderator: Trish Groves (United Kingdom)
Stability of Internet References in General Medical Journals
Paula A. Rochon, Wei Wu, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Sunila R. Kalkar, Joel Thomson, Sudeep S. Gill (Canada, United States)
Electronic Culling of the Clinical Research Literature: Filters to Reduce the Burden of Hand Searching
Nancy L. Wilczynski, K. Ann McKibbon, R. Brian Haynes (Canada)
Letters and Comments Published in Response to Research: Whither Postpublication Peer Review?
Margaret A. Winker (United States)
Likes, Shares, and Tweets: The Growing Role of Social Media at a General Medical Journal
James A. Colbert, Jennifer M. Zeis, Pamela W. Miller, Ruth Y. Lewis, Jonathan N. Adler, Edward W. Campion (United States)
Closing and Adjournment
Abstracts to Be Presented as Posters
Posters will be presented during 2 sessions on Monday and Tuesday, September 9 and 10.
Open Access And Dissemination
Authors’ Views on Online-Only Publication
Frauke Becher, Are Brean, Erlend Hem, Christine Laine, Alicia Ludwig, Mary Beth Schaeffer, Catharine Stack, Arlene Weissman (Norway, USA)
Open-Access Publication of Research Papers: Who Can Pay?
Hajira Dambha, Roger Jones (UK)
Benchmarking Prominent Medical and Scientific Journal Facebook and Twitter Popularity
Robert P. Dellavalle, Natalia S. Dellavalle, Lisa M. Schilling (USA)
Investigating the Use and Users of the Norwegian Electronic Health Library by Indirect Indicators
Runar Eggen, Magne Nylenna (Norway)
Do Readers Read What Peer Reviewers Selected?
Marian M. Tolksdorf, Markus K. Heinemann (Germany)
MacPLUS Federated Search: A Centralized Internet-Based Resource to Bring Best Evidence to Health Care Professionals
Emma C. Iserman, Alfonso Iorio, R. Brian Haynes (Canada)
Authorship
Honorary and Ghost Authorship in Selected Nursing Journals
Maureen Shawn Kennedy, Jane Barnsteiner, John Daly (Australia)
Recommendations to ICMJE for Improving the Guidelines for Authorship Disclosures
Fay Ling, John Kerpan (USA)
Authorship: Attitudes and Practice Among Norwegian Researchers
Magne Nylenna, Frode Vartdal, Erlend Bremertun Smeland, Frode Fagerbakk, Peter Kierulf (Norway)
Honorary Authorship and Coercive Citation in Medical Research
Allen Wilhite, Eric A. Fong (USA)
Use of the “Antighostwriting Checklist” at a General Medical Journal: Results of a Pilot Study
Elizabeth Wager, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Jigisha Patel (UK)
Chinese Authors, Reviewers, and Editors’ Attitudes Toward ResearcherID
SUN Jing, LIU Huan, QIAN Shou-chu (China)
Bias
How Are Gender and Geography Associated With Sponsorship of Collaborative Cancer Research?
Gordon H. Sun, Nicholas M. Moloci, Kelsey Schmidt, Mark P. MacEachern, Reshma Jagsi (USA)
Association Between Personal Financial Conflicts of Interest and Recommendation of Medical Interventions: A Systematic Review
Andreas Lundh, Anders W. Jørgensen, Lisa Bero (Denmark, USA)
Risk Factors for Noncompletion of Cochrane Reviews
Richard G. McGee, Patrick J. Kelly, Jonathan C. Craig, Navelle S. Willis, Ann E. Jones, Gai Y. Higgins, Ruth L. Mitchell, Angela C. Webster (Australia)
Do Declarative Titles Affect Readers’ Perceptions of Research Findings? A Randomized Controlled Trial
Elizabeth Wager, Douglas G. Altman, Iveta Simera, Tudor P. Toma (UK)
Citations
Standardizing Citation of Bioresources in Scientific Publications
Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Paola De Castro, Federica Napolitani, Anna Maria Rossi, Alessia Calzolari, Laurence Mabile, Elena Bravo, as Members of the Bioresources Research Impact Factor (BRIF) Working Group (France, Italy)
Analyzing the Impact of Case Reports in a Medical Genetics Journal: Citations for Case Reports in the Impact Factor Window Compared to 3 to 5 Years Later
John C. Carey, Steve D. Weist, Margaret S. Weist (USA)
Are Online Article Views in the First Year After Publication Correlated to Citations?
Deborah Levine, David F. Kallmes, Elkan Halpern, Herbert Y. Kressel (USA)
Is a Uniform Name Format Necessary for Accurate Search Results of Chinese Authors?
SUN Jing, LIU Huan, GAO Jian, QIAN Shou-Chu (China)
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Citable and Noncitable Items and the Impact Factor
Tobias Opthof, Loet Leydesdorff, Ruben Coronel (Netherlands)
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Dissemination
Attitude Toward Publications in Electronic Journals: A Glimpse Into the Minds of the Decision Makers in Universities
Muhammad Aslam (Pakistan)
Publishing a Bilingual Journal: The Example of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
Christopher Baethge (Germany)
Ten Years’ Experience Teaching Health Professionals to Write and to Publish Articles
Esteve Fernández, Ana M. García, Elisabet Serés, Fèlix Bosch (Spain)
Google Scholar, Ovid, and PubMed Underestimate Orthodontic RCT Numbers Compared to Hand Searching
Rhian C. Fitzgerald, David T. Sawbridge, Jayne E. Harrison (UK)
Ethical Issues and Misconduct
Ethics in Practice: Improvements in Ethical Policies and Practices in Wiley Health Science Journals Following a 2-Stage Audit Cycle
Chris Graf, Alice Meadows, Allen Stevens, Elizabeth Wager (Australia, USA, UK)
Scientific Misconduct in South Asian Medical Journals: Results of an Online Survey
Sandhya Srinivasan, Sanjay A. Pai, Rakesh Aggarwal, Peush Sahni (India)
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Authors’ Awareness of Publication Ethics: An International Survey
Sara Schroter, Jason Roberts, Elizabeth Loder, Donald B. Penzien, Sarah Davies, Timothy T. Houle (UK, USA)
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Editorial And Peer Review Processes
Facilitating Rapid Peer Review: A Study of PLOS ONE Reviewer Timing
Rachel Bernstein, Krista Hoff, Emma Dupin, Damian Pattinson (USA, UK)
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Assessment of the Quality of Open Peer Review Using the Draft COPE Guidance
Hajira Dambha, Roger Jones (UK)
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Effect of Training Workshop on Quality of Students’ Peer Reviewing of Research Abstracts: A One-Arm Self-control Educational Intervention
Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Hamid Reza Baradaran, Maziar Moradi Lakeh (Sweden, Iran)
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The Fate of the Rapidly Rejected Manuscript: Where Does It Go Next?
Olivia Wilkins, Virginia A. Moyer, Lewis R. First (USA)
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Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Training Programs in Writing for Scholarly Publication, Journal Editing, and Manuscript Peer Review
James Galipeau, David Moher, D. William Cameron, Craig Campbell, Paul Hébert, Paul Hendry, Anita Palepu, Becky Skidmore (Canada)
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Poor Manuscript Title as a Predictor for Manuscript Rejection in a General Medical Journal: A Cohort Study
Petter Gjersvik, Pål Gulbrandsen, Erlend T. Aasheim, Magne Nylenna (Norway)
Abstract | Article published in Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2013;133:2475-7. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.13.1077.
Attitudes Toward Blinding of Peer Review and Perceptions of Efficacy Within a Small Biomedical Specialty
Reshma Jagsi, Katherine Egan Bennett, Kent Griffith, Rochelle DeCastro, Calley Grace, Anthony Zietman (USA)
Abstract | Article published in International Journal of Radiation Oncology/Biology/Physics 89 (5) 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.04.021.
A Comparison of the Quality of Reviewer Reports From Author-Suggested Reviewers and Non–Author-Suggested Reviewers in Journals Operating on Open or Closed Peer Review Models
Maria K. Kowalczuk, Frank Dudbridge, Shreeya Nanda, Stephanie Harriman, Elizabeth C. Moylan (UK)
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Correlation of the Final and the Preliminary Evaluation Scores of the Academy of Finland’s Peer Review Panels on Biomedical Engineering, 2006-2012
Juha Latikka (Finland)
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Are Reviewers’ Scores Influenced by Citations to Their Own Work? An Analysis of Submitted Manuscripts and Review Reports
David L. Schriger, Samantha P. Kadera, Mickey M. Murano, Erik von Elm (USA, Switzerland)
Abstract | Article published in Ann Emerg Med. 2015 Oct 27. pii: S0196-0644(15)01266-4.
Laboratory Investigation Editorial Internships: Peer Review Opportunities for Young Investigators
Catherine M. Ketcham, Robert W. Hardy, Brian P. Rubin, Gene P. Siegal (USA)
Abstract | Article published in Lab Invest. 2013 Dec;93(12):1262-4. doi: 10.1038/labinvest.2013.125.
Crowd-Sourcing in Medical Publishing: American Journal of Preventive Medicine’s Childhood Obesity Challenge
Jill Waalen, Brian Saelens, Elsie Taveras, Beverly Lytton, Bill Silberg, Kevin Patrick (USA)
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Postpublication Peer Review
What Do Authors Really Want to Know Postpublication?
Mary Beth Schaeffer, Christine Laine, Darren Taichman, Jill Jackson, Parsh Mehta, Catharine Stack (USA)
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Quality of Reporting
Temporal Change in the Use of P Values and Confidence Intervals for Reporting Intergroup Comparisons in Abstracts in Major General Medical Journals
Rakesh Aggarwal, Shambhavi Srivastava, Aditya N. Sarangi, Peush Sahni (India)
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Reporting Standards for Translational Animal Research
David Krauth, Calvin Gruss, Rose Philipps, Lisa Bero (USA)
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Compliance Reporting in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Literature-Based Study
Francois Cachat, Katharina Theodoropoulou, Caroline Maendly, Hassib Chehade, Erik Von Elm (Switzerland)
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The Graphical Literacy of Top Medical Journals in 2012
Jennifer C. Chen, Mike E. McMullen, Carter C. Wystrach, David L. Schriger, Richelle J. Cooper (USA)
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Reporting of Study Enrollment: Missed Opportunities to Clarify Selection and Suggestions for Improvement
Jessica J. Wall, Richelle J. Cooper, Brian Raffeto, Douglas G. Altman, David L. Schriger (USA, UK)
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Use of Clustering Analysis in Randomized Controlled Trials in Orthopedic Surgery
Hanna Oltean, Joel J. Gagnier (USA)
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Quality of Reporting Methods for Estimating Hazard Ratio From Analyzing Time-to-Event Outcomes in Four General Medical Journals
Yen-Hong Kuo (USA)
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Improving the Completeness of Reporting of Research Articles: Implementing an Automated System
David Moher, Larissa Shamseer, James Galipeau, Jason Roberts, Tim Houle, Pierre-Olivier Charlebois, Chris Ivey (Canada)
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Characteristics of Manuscripts Rejected From a Chinese Medical Journal: A Cohort Study
HAO Xiu-yuan, QIAN Shou-chu (China)
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An Analysis of the Completeness of Claims Made to Emphasize the Importance of a Research Study
Medell K. Briggs-Malonson, Sara Crager, Richelle J. Cooper, David L. Schriger (USA)
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Trends in the Quality of Data Graphs Over Time and the Role of Peer Review and Editing in Those Trends
Marco R. Fossati-Bellani, Michael E. McMullen, Brian Raffetto, Claire Drolen, Richelle J. Cooper, David L. Schriger (USA)
Abstract | Article published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 69, Issue 4, 444-452.e2.
Is the Relationship Among Outcome Variables Shown in Randomized Trials?
Carter C. Wystrach, Ana Lopez-O’Sullivan, Richelle J. Cooper, David L. Schriger, Douglas G. Altman (USA, UK)
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Reporting Guidelines
Development of a Quality Score for the Assessment of Nonsystematic Review Articles (SANRA)
Christopher Baethge, Stephan Mertens, Sandra Goldbeck-Wood (Germany, Norway)
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SQUIRE Grows Up! Revising the SQUIRE Guidelines to Meet the Advances in the Science of Quality Improvement
Louise Davies, Greg Ogrinc, Paul B. Batalden, Frank Davidoff, David Stevens (USA)
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Consensus-Based Recommendations for Investigating Clinical Heterogeneity in Systematic Reviews
Joel J. Gagnier, Hal Morgenstern, Douglas G. Altman, Jesse Berlin, Stephanie Chang, Peter McCulloch, Xin Sun, David Moher, for the Ann Arbor Clinical Heterogeneity Consensus Group (USA, UK, Canada)
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Proposal for a Structured Abstract for Case Reports: An Analytical Study
Devendra Mishra, Piyush Gupta, Bhawna Dhingra, Pooja Dewan (India)
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Implementation of Adherence to the CONSORT Guidelines by the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
Nikolaos Pandis, Larissa Shamseer, Vincent G. Kokich, David Moher (Switzerland, USA, Canada)
Abstract | Article published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2014 67(9):1044-1048. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.04.001.
Update on the Endorsement of CONSORT by High Impact Factor Journals: A Survey of Journal Editors and Instructions to Authors
Larissa Shamseer, Justin Theilman, Lucy Turner, Sally Hopewell, Douglas G. Altman, Kenneth F. Schulz, David Moher (Canada, UK, USA)
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Does Journal Endorsement of Reporting Guidelines Impact the Completeness of Reporting of Health Research? A Systematic Review
Adrienne Stevens, Larissa Shamseer, Erica Weinstein, Fatemeh Yazdi, Lucy Turner, Justin Thielman, Douglas G. Altman, Allison Hirst, John Hoey, Anita Palepu, Iveta Simera, Kenneth F. Schulz, David Moher (Canada, USA, UK)
Abstract | Article published in BMJ 2014;348:g3804. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g3804.
Including Equity in Systematic Reviews: Using the PRISMA-Equity Extension Reporting Guidelines for Systematic Reviews
With a Focus on Equity Vivian Welch, Mark Petticrew, Peter Tugwell, David A. Moher, Jennifer O’Neill, Elizabeth Waters, Howard White (Canada, UK, Australia, USA)
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Implementation of Reporting Guidelines in and the Quality of Reporting in Chinese and Non-Chinese Surgery Journals
DU Liang, LIU Xuemei, ZHU Ming, JIANG Qian (China)
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Trial Registration
Surgical Trials and Trial Registers: A Cross-sectional Study of Randomized Controlled Trials Published in Surgery Journals Requiring Trial Registration in Their Author Instructions
Julia L. S. Hardt, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Joerg J. Meerpohl (Germany)
Abstract | Article published in Trials 2013, 14:407. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-14-407.