Ziogas 2009.

Methods	Evaluates the reporting quality of published RCTs concerning myeloid haematologic malignancies according to the CONSORT Statement
Data	74 pre‐CONSORT RCTs compared with 187 post CONSORT RCTs
Comparisons	Title and abstract, background, participants, interventions, objectives, outcomes, sample size, sequence generation, allocation concealment, implementation, blinding any, statistical methods, participant flow, recruitment, baseline data, numbers analysed, outcomes and estimation, ancillary analyses, adverse events, interpretation, generalisability, overall evidence
Outcomes	Cross‐sectional sample before and after CONSORT publication
Included number of RCTs, Journals	261, not reported
Checklist version used	1996
Field of Study	Myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes
Notes
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Large Cohort ?	Yes	Over 2 decades, large number of studies, wide database search
Blinding?	Unclear	Not reported
Confounding by journal quality?	Unclear	Quote: "The RCTs of major IF journals have adhered better to the CONSORT statement."
Outcome Reporting?	Yes	No evidence of outcome reporting
Multiple raters?	Yes	Quote: "No pilot training of the data extraction was performed."
Rater agreement?	Yes	Not reported
Blinding, quality assessment?	Yes	Not applicable

BMJ: British Medical Journal 
 CI: confidence interval 
 CONSORT: Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials 
 COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 
 ECTR: endoscopic carpal tunnel release 
 ITT: intention‐to‐treat

ICC: Intra‐Class Correlation Coefficient

ICJME: Iternational Commitee of Medical Journal Editors

JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association

ME: Managing Editor 
 NEJM: New England Journal of Medicine

NPT: Non‐pharmocological Trials 
 OCTR: open carpal tunnel release

PRO: Patient reported outcomes 
 RCT: randomised controlled trial 
 STRICTA: Standards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture 
 TCM: Traditional Chinese Medicine