Methodological Rigour in Preclinical Urology: a 14-year systematic review reporting research quality.
Seung Hyun ParkSe Bee LeeSeoyeon ParkEun Young KimDamiano PizzolMike TrottYvonne BarnettAi KoyanagiLouis JacobPinar SoysalNicola VeroneseSimona IppolitiRamy Abou GhaydaNannan ThirumavalavanAdonis HijazDavid SheynRachel PopeBritt ConroyIrina JaegerGupta ShubhamAmihay NevoPetre Cristian IlieSeung-Won LeeDong Keon YonHyun Ho HanSung Hwi HongYoun Ho ShinLee PonskyLee SmithPublished in: BJU international (2023)
The risk of bias is prevalent in 14-year publications describing preclinical urological research, and the quality of methodological rigour is barely related to the citation density of the article. Yet five study design elements (randomization, blinding, sample size estimation, statistical analysis, housing, and husbandry) proposed by both NIH and ARRIVE guidelines have been either well reported or are being well reported over time.