For an item that contained multiple subitems, the reporting of the item was considered to be complete when at least one subitem was completely reported.
The reporting of the item was considered to be complete when the sequence generation method was reported regardless of the information of restriction method provided in a given RCT.
Nor does Mr. Wells list hairs from the bed on his report of the items he was given for testing.
We then examined any changes in reporting of these items between the original and final version of the manuscript.
In order to further explore the quality of reporting, papers were awarded one point for reporting each of the items on the relevant checklist.
Evaluating the reporting of this item was affected by the differences in the subjective judgment of the reviewers.
Another limitation is that we only describe reporting of the quality items; it may very well be that what was not reported was actually done.
The frequency of reporting of the 25 items across the five domains was evaluated for all studies (Additional file 2).
In CONSORT, one item pertains to the reporting of the intervention (item 5: reporting of the interventions for each group with sufficient details to allow replication, including how and when they were actually administered).
