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| Title |
Taking advantage of unexpected WebCONSORT results
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, December 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-016-0758-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Erik Cobo, José Antonio González |
| Abstract |
To estimate treatment effects, trials are initiated by randomising patients to the interventions under study and finish by comparing patient evolution. In order to improve the trial report, the CONSORT statement provides authors and peer reviewers with a guide of the essential items that would allow research replication. Additionally, WebCONSORT aims to facilitate author reporting by providing the items from the different CONSORT extensions that are relevant to the trial being reported. WebCONSORT has been estimated to improve the proportion of reported items by 0.04 (95% CI, -0.02 to 0.10), interpreted as "no important difference", in accordance with the scheduled desired scenario of a 0.15 effect size improvement. However, in a non-scheduled analysis, it was found that, despite clear instructions, around a third of manuscripts selected for trials by the editorial staff were not actually randomised trials. We argue that surprises benefit science, and that further research should be conducted in order to improve the performance of editorial staff.Please see related research: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0736-x. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 40% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 11 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 11 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 27% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 27% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 18% |
| Other | 1 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 9% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 1 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 45% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 9% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 9% |
| Decision Sciences | 1 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 9% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 2 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2017.
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#7,159,304
of 22,908,162 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,541
of 3,444 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#130,902
of 415,991 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#50
of 70 outputs
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