Analysis of Spin in RCTs of Spine Surgery Using ORG-LOC Grading Tool.
Sathish MuthuGirinivasan ChellamuthuK S Karthika HathwarEswar RamakrishnanArun Prasad DakshinamoorthyNaveen JeyaramanPublished in: Indian journal of orthopaedics (2022)
Spin-based grading of RCTs is the need of the hour to aid readers to interpret the true essence of research papers. 40% of the RCTs in top spine journals had low to critically low LOC. Objective structuring of abstracts with adherence to CONSORT guidelines is the way forward to prevent spin.