TY - JOUR AU - Dai, Shuangyang AU - Zhou, Xiaobin AU - Xu, Hong AU - Li, Beibei AU - Zhang, Jingao PY - 2020 DA - 2020/09/11 TI - Evaluation of the reporting quality of observational studies in master of public health dissertations in China JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 230 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Master of public health (MPH) plays an important role in Chinese medical education, and the dissertations is an important part of MPH education. In MPH dissertations, most are observational studies. Compared with randomized controlled trial (RCT), observational studies are more prone to information bias. So, the reporting of the observational studies should be transparent and standard. But, no research on evaluating the reporting quality of the MPH dissertation has been found. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01116-6 DO - 10.1186/s12874-020-01116-6 ID - Dai2020 ER -