The use of tailored subheadings was successful in enhancing compliance with CONSORT in a dental journal

Conclusion Enhanced compliance of submitted RCTs was found with use of a bespoke approach to trial presentation utilizing CONSORT item subheadings. The improvement in initial submissions is particularly encouraging as this arose without input either from peer reviewers or journal editors. This simple approach may have wider applicability.
Source: Journal of Dentistry - Category: Dentistry Source Type: research