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We examined the reporting of eligibility criteria in the protocol, methods paper (if applicable), journal article, and Clinical Alert for articles appearing in print between January 1988 and September 1994 for which a Clinical Alert had been issued.
Adequate reporting of eligibility criteria, follow up duration and study interventions were 81 %, 62 and 53% respectively.
For example, assessment of reporting of eligibility criteria was limited by data extractors not being intimately familiar with the clinical topic of every RCT.
Our findings suggest that discrepancies in the reporting of eligibility criteria are common.
Incomplete or inadequate reporting of eligibility criteria hampers a proper assessment of the applicability of trial results.
If the reporting of eligibility criteria has improved in the meantime our findings would probably overestimate the current magnitude of the problem.
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What about the reporting of detailed eligibility criteria?
7 8 Little is known about the reporting of the eligibility criteria used for selection of trial participants.
A number of studies did not report details of eligibility criteria (n = 15, 20.5%) or the number of participants not consenting to participate in the study (n = 42, 57.5%), so it was not possible to make an assessment of biases due to participant selection.
Two investigators (ASVS and KKL) were involved in the examination of the full text reports for eligibility of studies according to our prespecified review protocol (PROSPERO registration CRD42014009225).
During most of the study period, Medicaid recipients in California were required to report on eligibility every three months, the researchers said, but that practice has since changed.
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