Table 1.

Location of scoring details in the paper for measures which reported scoring details

Location in paper	All outcome measures n = 106	Primary outcome measures n = 31
Methods section	45 (42)	20 (65)
Results - in table, figure, or footnote to these	35 (33)	2 (6)
In more than one place in paper	33 (31)	12 (39)
Abstract	3 (3)	2 (6)
Discussion section	2 (2)	1 (3)

Results are presented as numbers (percentages).

Totals are >100% as location was more than one place in some papers.