Bmc Med Res Methodol
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Bmc Med Res Methodol · Jun 2013
Risk of bias of randomized controlled trials published in orthopaedic journals.
The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of methodology in orthopaedics-related randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published from January 2006 to December 2010 in the top orthopaedic journals based on impact scores from the Thompson ISI citation reports (2010). ⋯ In summary, very few studies met all ten criteria. Thus, many of these studies likely have biased estimates of treatment effects. In addition, these journals had poor reporting of important methodological aspects.