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. 2011 Jan 19;2011(1):MR000031. doi: 10.1002/14651858.MR000031.pub2

Soares 2004.

Methods To determine whether poor reporting of methods in randomised controlled trials reflects on poor methods from the content of reports compared with the design features described in the protocols for all randomised controlled trials from conducted by the Radiation therapy oncology group (RTOG) since its establishment in 1968.
Data 59 terminated RCTs
56/59 published RCTs (with 58 publications)
Comparisons Comparison of protocol to published report
Outcomes Primary outcomes; allocation concealment; ITT; sample size; alpha and beta
Notes Protocol definition: original protocols including revisions
Published reports: all papers
Risk of bias
Item Authors' judgement Description
Follow up? Yes 56 published RCTs followed up
Selective reporting? Yes All outcomes stated in the methods section were reported.