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As in many areas of biology, researchers don't always document their methods in sufficient detail for others to replicate them.
Authors should report the study design and microbiological methods in sufficient detail to enable their quality to be assessed.
An appendix, available on the website gives results but neither it nor the main paper actually details the methods in sufficient detail for the results to be reproduced.
Approximately 41.2% of the MAs did not describe the statistical methods in sufficient details, and most (95.5%) MAs did not report on conflicts of interest.
None of the eight studies were judged at high risk for selection bias due to inadequate randomisation or allocation concealment procedures, but three did not report methods in sufficient detail for the possibility of allocation bias to be discounted.
20 21 Disappointingly, 41.2% of the studies did not describe the statistical methods in sufficient detail; in fact, some of the studies did not explore the reasons for statistical heterogeneity and simply pooled results using a random effects model to account for heterogeneity.
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A total of 105 publications did not describe the method in sufficient detail.
Describing the methods and results in sufficient detail would require substantial space in print, but options for publishing additional information on the study online make this possible.
Attainment of these goals would be helped significantly if guidelines 10 and 11 were strictly applied, so that statistical analysis methods were described in sufficient detail to allow an individual independent of the original research team to reproduce the results of the study if supplied with the raw data.
5 We assessed whether (1) the trial was randomised, (2) the authors provided a sufficiently detailed description of the randomisation method, (3) the trial was double blind, (4) the blinding method was described in sufficient detail and (5) withdrawals were reported.
Methods should be reported in sufficient detail to permit replication (which may require that they be published separately).
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