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. 2011 Jul 30;11:110. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-110

Table 3.

Methodological reporting in 2008 according to center and funding source

Sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding Sample size calculation Incomplete outecome Intention-to-treat analysis Free of selective reporting

n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Center

Single-center 20(64%) 14(45%) 13(42%) 21(68%) 17(55%) 17(55%) 21(68%)
 (n = 31)

Multi-center 61(80%) 48(63%) 49(64%) 62(82%) 35(46%) 57(75%) 36(47%)
 (n = 76)

P value 0.08 0.09 0.03 0.12 0.41 0.04 0.06

Funding source

 Industry 37(86%) 31(72%) 30(70%) 34(80%) 18(42%) 28(65%) 21(49%)
 (n = 43)

 Public 28(70%) 20(50%) 19(48%) 30(75%) 23(58%) 28(72%) 25(63%)
 (n = 40)

P value 0.07 0.04 0.04 0.66 0.16 0.64 0.21