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Table 2.

Example of integrity assessment sheet to be published alongside guidelines or publications, with integrity domains assessed (using the TRACT integrity tool), risk ratings, documented votes, final risk ratings after discussion and final allocation after author contact.

Author, year	Governance			Author group			Plausibility of intervention		Timeframe			Drop outs		Baseline characteristics		Outcomes		Total (3a.)^b	Initial risk rating (3b.)^b	Voting record (4b.)^b	Final risk rating (4b./4c.)^b	Final study allocation (after author contact) (6a.)^b
Author, year	Absent or retrospective registration	Discrepant registration	Absent or vague ethics	Low # or ratio of authors	Retraction watch base (2a./2b.)^b	Large # RCTs	Implausible intervention	Illogical methods	Fast recruitment	Fast follow-up	No LTFU	Ideal numbers	No or few (<5) BL data	Implausible data	Perfectly balanced	Larger effect size than other RCTs	Conflicting outcomes	Total (3a.)^b	Initial risk rating (3b.)^b	Voting record (4b.)^b	Final risk rating (4b./4c.)^b	Final study allocation (after author contact) (6a.)^b
Author, 2010	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Retracted- Exclude	Unanimous ×6	Retracted	Excluded
Author, 2009	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	6	High	Unanimous ×6	High	Not Included
Author, 2018	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	5	Moderate	×2 mod (BM, MF); ×4 high (HT, AM, JT, MC)^a	High	Awaiting Classification
Author, 2009	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	6	High	Unanimous ×6	High	Not Included
Author, 2013	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	4	Moderate	Unanimous ×6	Moderate	Awaiting Classification
Author, 2005	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	3	Low	×4 low (AM, HT, JT, MC), ×2 mod (BM, MF)^a	Low	Included
Author, 2019	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	4	Moderate	×4 low (AM, HT, JT, MC), ×2 mod (BM, MF)^a	Low	Included

All scoring tables with votes and final decisions should be documented for transparency and published in technical reports or supplemental material.

Denotes the initials of committee members and their respective votes.

Refers to the checklist item for this part of the Research Integrity in Guidelines and evIDence synthesis (RIGID) framework (Table 3). BL, baseline; LTFU, lost to follow up; mod, moderate; TRACT, Trustworthiness in Randomized Controlled Trials tool; RCTs, randomized controlled trials. Descriptions of the domains for the tool shown here can be found in Mol et al.²⁴ and in the Supplemental Material (Appendix 2).