Inclusion of Clinical Trial Registration Numbers in Conference Abstracts and Conformance of Abstracts to CONSORT Guidelines

Elizabeth C Wright; Devika Kapuria; Gil Ben-Yakov; Disha Sharma; Dev Basu; Min Ho Cho; Kenneth J Wilkins

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3183

Inclusion of Clinical Trial Registration Numbers in Conference Abstracts and Conformance of Abstracts to CONSORT Guidelines

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Dec 1;179(12):1716-1717. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3183.

Authors

Elizabeth C Wright¹, Devika Kapuria², Gil Ben-Yakov³, Disha Sharma³, Dev Basu⁴, Min Ho Cho⁵, Kenneth J Wilkins¹

Affiliations

¹ Office of the Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
² Department of Gastroenterology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
³ Liver Disease Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
⁴ MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, New York University, New York.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study reviews abstracts presented at 8 major medical and surgical conferences held in 2017 to assess the extent to which abstracts reporting randomized clinical trial results cite trial registration numbers and conform to key CONSORT guidelines.

MeSH terms

Clinical Trials as Topic / standards*
Congresses as Topic / standards*
Guidelines as Topic / standards*
Humans