BMC Medical Research Methodology

Featured article: The reporting quality of interventions used in test-treatment RCTs

Analysis of the reporting of interventions in test-treatment randomised controlled trails, which evaluate the effects of diagnostic tests on patient outcomes, revealed that the quality of reporting is generally low with most published trial reports unlikely to enable users to translate interventions into practice. In an effort to reduce this research waste, this article discusses the reasons behind this observation and what improvements can be made in the reporting of test-treatment RCTs.

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BMC Medical Research Methodology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in methodological approaches to healthcare research. Articles on the methodology of epidemiological research, clinical trials and meta-analysis/systematic review are particularly encouraged, as are empirical studies of the associations between choice of methodology and study outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology does not aim to publish articles describing scientific methods or techniques: these should be directed to the BMC journal covering the relevant biomedical subject area.

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Emma Cookson, BioMed Central

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Timothy Beebe, University of Minnesota
Chiu-Hsieh (Paul) Hsu, University of Arizona
Roberta Scherer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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