The median number of reported Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials harms items per article was 9 out of 18 (IQR 7-10), and mean number was 8.39 (SD = 3.02). Items in the methods section were the least frequently reported. The proportion of RCTs reporting the number of SAEs and ...
Percentage agreement and the Cohen's Kappa coefficient were calculated. Results Twenty-one studies were included. According to the Template for Intervention Description and Replication checklist, items were reported appropriately with a median of 29% (range 0–95%, IQR 40.5). The median number of ...
The number of meningioma systematic reviews published each year has increased with 63 studies (53.9%) published between 01/2018 and 12/2020. A median of 17 studies (IQR 9鈥 29) were included per review. Impact factor of journals publishing a systematic review with or without a meta-analysis...
The median (IQR) representation of female participants was 44% (33%-56%) in 2015 and 46% (33%-60%) in 2019 (Figure, B). Discussion Among randomized clinical trials published in major medical journals, race and SES continue to be underreported, while the sex of participants was nearly ...
In the presentsystematic review, the prevalence of prescription errors related to the use ofCPOEsystems varied widely (median = 26.1% [IQR: 17.6–42,1]). The included studies are difficult to compare because of t inconsistencies in the reporting of the results. Wrong dose” and “wrong ...
In 13 articles the number of patients in the validation datasets were reported (median 200, IQR 148 to 359, range 5 to 1,782). In nine articles the number of events in validation datasets were reported (median 110, IQR 65 to 149, range 15 to 574) [16,18,32,33,39,45,46,49,51]...
Across the 1716 studies with consent forms, the median (IQR) time between study completion and posting was 201.0 (14.0 to 392.3) days, with 617 (36.0%) posting within 60 days (Table 2). The median (IQR) time to posting improved from 1040.0 (378.0 to 2218.0) days in the p...
BMC Medical Research Methodology (2022) 22:230 Page 4 of 10 standard definitions (SDs) and medians with interquar- tile ranges (IQR) were calculated for continuous data. Based on the findings from the predecessor study [1], which indicate that the epidemiology and reporting of SRs differ by...
(10–12, 13–14).Outcome measuresTotal number of symptoms, symptoms reported, and proportion equally reporting symptoms (0, ≥1) on both PCSS scales.Main resultsParticipants reported a median of 2 symptoms [Interquartile Range (IQR):0–21] on the adult scale (/22) and 5 (IQR:0-20) ...
Fig. 2: Location heatmap of included studies by country, showing high distribution within China and USA. Generated using R Statistical Software (v4.1.1, R Core Team 2021). Full size image Median sample size across all included RCTs was 186 (IQR 56-654). Most RCTs were single centre (...