Reporting Quality of the Abstracts for Randomized Controlled Trials in Pediatric Dentistry.

Vellore Kannan Gopinath Raghavendra Manjunath Shetty Apathsakayan RenugalakshmiLalli DharmarajanPonnudurai Samuel Gnana PrakashJayakumar Jayaraman

Published in: European journal of dentistry (2023)

The abstracts of the RCT included in the study did not adequately follow the CONSORT for abstract guidelines. Adherence to the reporting guidelines would improve the overall reporting quality of abstracts of RCT published in Pediatric Dentistry. The overall mean score of the abstracts was 6.80 out of 15 indicating that the abstracts did not adequately follow the CONSORT for abstract reporting guidelines.

Keyphrases

adverse drug
clinical practice
randomized controlled trial
quality improvement
type diabetes
clinical trial
metabolic syndrome
skeletal muscle
weight loss