The Reporting Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials in Orthodontics

Lempesi, Evangelia; Koletsi, Despina; Fleming, Padhraig S.; Pandis, Nikolaos

doi:10.1016/j.jebdp.2013.12.001

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“…Earlier studies with the same aim, conducted on different specialties of dentistry, evaluated additional items, including the subjective items of introduction and discussion sections. 28,29,30,31,32,33 In the present study we observed that the overall CONSORT score for the included studies was 16.6 ± 5.3 points, which represents only 52.2% of the maximum CONSORT score a study could have reached. This reduced compliance with CONSORT Statement was also observed in an earlier study from our research group evaluating the compliance of RCTs in non-carious cervical lesions with the CONSORT.…”

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“…22 This is different from what had been done in other papers, which have reported the adherence of RCTs in other dental areas, such as orthodontics, prosthodontics, oral implants, periodontics and pediatric dentistry. 28,29,30,31,32,33 These earlier studies were more focused on the journal's compliance rather than the article's compliance with a specific subject. Subsequently, few of these earlier studies performed a comprehensive search review of the articles published in a specific research area, as we have tried to do in the present study.…”

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“…In orthodontics, this compliance ranged from 40 to 70%. 28,29,30,34,35 Although these variations are small, they may reflect the inclusion criteria of the RCTs, the method of compliance evaluation, the number of CONSORT items evaluated, and also the period of publication. Our previous study of RCTs in non-carious cervical lesions demonstrated that the adherence of the study increases when the study is more recent.…”

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Randomized clinical trials of dental bleaching – Compliance with the CONSORT Statement: a systematic review

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We reviewed the literature to evaluate: a) The compliance of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on bleaching with the CONSORT; and b) the risk of bias of these studies using the Cochrane Collaboration risk of bias tool (CCRT). We searched the Cochrane Library, PubMed and other electronic databases, to find RCTs focused on bleaching (or whitening). The articles were evaluated in compliance with CONSORT in a scale: 0 = no description, 1 = poor description and 2 = adequate description. Descriptive analyses of the number of studies by journal, follow-up period, country and quality assessments were performed with CCRT for assessing risk of bias in RCTs. 185 RCTs were included for assessment. More than 30% of the studies received score 0 or 1. Protocol, flow chart, allocation concealment and sample size were more critical items, as 80% of the studies scored 0. The overall CONSORT score for the included studies was 16.7 ± 5.4 points, which represents 52.2% of the maximum CONSORT score. A significant difference among journal, country and period of time was observed (p < 0.02). Only 7.6% of the studies were judged at "low" risk; 62.1% were classified as "unclear"; and 30.3% as "high" risk of bias. The adherence of RCTs evaluating bleaching materials and techniques to the CONSORT is still low with unclear/high risk of bias.

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Randomized clinical trials of dental bleaching – Compliance with the CONSORT Statement: a systematic review

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“…Initiatives to improve the conduct and reporting of clinical trials have encompassed the development of guidelines to enhance overall reporting (1), as well as guidance specific to aspects of trial conduct and reporting including interventions (2) and statistical analysis (3). Notwithstanding this, the quality of trial design and the clarity of reporting has consistently fallen short of these ideals with problems common to diverse areas within medicine and dentistry (4,5).…”

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Evidence of spin in clinical trials in the surgical literature

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“…However, conducting a research is not enough, it must be reported in such a way that other researchers and clinicians may evaluate it in detail and replicate it to verify the reported results. Recent studies have detected the lack of reporting quality of important methodological aspects in many publications in areas such as orthodontics 2 or implantology 3 .…”

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