Table 2.

Use of reporting guidelines scores across editorial decisions

Editorial decision	Mean scorea (SD)	P
Rejected without peer review	0.53 (0.50)
Rejected after peer review	0.53 (0.50)	.68
Not rejected after peer review	0.49 (0.50)	.47

^aSubmissions were scored according to the following rules: authors indicated they used a reporting guideline to prepare their submission, 1; authors indicated they did not use a reporting guideline to prepare their submission, 0. P values were calculated using a two-sided paired t test