A multiyear systematic survey of the quality of reporting for randomised trials in dentistry, neurology and geriatrics published in journals of Spain and Latin America

Table 5 The proportion of RCTs that comply with each CONSORT item included for analysis in the study, by region, and the overall compliance (n = 392)

Consort item and number			Latin America (%)	Spain (%)	All (%)
Title & abstract	1a	Title	16	30	24
Title & abstract	1b	Abstract	55	82	70
Methods	3a	Trial design	58	55	56
	4a	Participants	72	82	78
	4b	Settings	43	44	43
	5	Interventions	88	84	86
	6a	Outcomes	21	22	22
Randomisation	7a	Sample size	22	19	20
	8a	Sequence generation	28	35	32
	9	Allocation concealment	12	11	11
	10	Implementation	3	0	1
	11a	Blinding	24	18	21
	12a	Statistical methods	44	37	40
Results	13a	Participant flow	35	28	31
	13b	Losses & exclusions	20	19	19
	14a	Dates of recruitment	5	4	4
	15	Baseline data	29	39	34
	16	Numbers analysed	15	15	15
	17a	Outcomes & estimation	3	5	4
	19	Harms	26	29	28
Other information	23	Registration	2	5	4
	24	Protocol	0	1	1
	25	Funding	28	25	26

ISSN: 1471-2288