Impact of a Short Form of the SPIRIT Checklist for Peer Reviewers to Improve the Reporting of Protocols for Randomised Controlled Trials Published in Biomedical Journals: a Randomised Controlled Trial (SPIRIT-PR)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 178
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Completeness of reporting
研究概览
简要总结
Transparent and accurate reporting is key, so that readers can adequately interpreting the results of a study. The aim of this project is to evaluate whether reminding peer reviewers of the most important SPIRIT reporting items (including a short explanation of those items) will result in higher adherence to SPIRIT guidelines in published protocols for RCTS. During the standard peer-review process, peer-reviewers will be randomly allocated to use either (i) a short version of the SPIRIT checklist including the ten most important and poorly reported SPIRIT items ; or (ii) no checklist. The aim is to find an intervention which improves the reporting, making it easier for readers to adequately interpret the presented articles.
详细描述
The full protocol is available on Open Science Framework where the study was prospectively registered: https://osf.io/z2hm9
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
Authors will be blinded to the intervention allocation. Editors will not be informed about the randomisation. To avoid potential bias, peer reviewers and authors will not be informed of the study hypothesis, design and intervention. All submitting authors and invited reviewers are routinely told that BMJ has a research programme and their article/review may be included in this research.
Outcomes will be assessed in duplicate by blinded outcome assessors
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Completeness of reporting
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
The primary outcome of this study will be the difference of the mean proportion of adequately reported items of the 10 most important and poorly reported SPIRIT items between the two intervention arms.
次要结局
- Proportion of articles directly rejected after the first round of peer-review(Through study completion, an average of 4 months; will be assessed from routinely collected data)
- Proportion of articles published(Through study completion, an average of 9 months; will be assessed from routinely collected data)
- Time from assigning an academic editor until the first decision (as communicated to the author after the first round of peer-review).(Through study completion, an average of 4 months; will be assessed from routinely collected data)
- Completeness of reporting(Through study completion, an average of 1 year)