Table 3.

 Inadequate quality of conduct of the systematic review process with adequate reporting in network meta-analyses, by journal type

Item (reported and of inadequate quality of conduct)	Overall	General journal	Specialty journal
Electronic search of only one bibliographic database	13/118 (11)	8/53 (15)	5/65 (8)
Restriction of study selection based on publication status	16/82 (20)	6/38 (16)	10/44 (23)
Lack of independent duplicate study selection	34/79 (43)	13/37 (35)	21/42 (50)
Lack of independent duplicate data extraction	19/89 (21)	10/41 (24)	9/48 (19)

Data are number (%)/total number of reports. Denominators of fractions indicate the total number of reports in which the corresponding item was reported.