Impact of a short version of the CONSORT checklist for peer reviewers to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials published in biomedical journals: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Introduction Transparent and accurate reporting is essential for readers to adequately interpret the results of a study.Journals can play a vital role in improving the reporting of published randomised controlled trials (RCTs).We describe an RCT to evaluate our hypothesis that asking peer reviewers to check whether the most important and poorly rep