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. 2021 Jul 28;16:64. doi: 10.1186/s13020-021-00475-6

Table 4.

Overall reporting quality scores for 2,447 included trials, by subgroup

Subgroup For massage-specific items
Mean (SD) scorea Mean (SD) scoreb
Year of publication (n)
 1990–2010 (n=233) 19.6 (2.9) 7.3 (1.9)
 2011–2020 (n=2,214) 19.8 (2.8) 7.6 (1.9)
Journal of publication (n)
 Chinese journal (n = 2368) 20.1 (2.6) 7.6 (1.9)
 International (English) journal (n = 79) 22.7 (3.7) 5.5 (1.5)

SD standard deviation

aA perfect score is 52 for the CONSORT and NPT items

bA perfect score is 16 for the massage-specific items