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

• Matthias Briel,
• Sally Hopewell,
• Iratxe Puebla,
• Michael Maia Schlüssel

Affiliations

Matthias Briel

Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sally Hopewell

associate professor

Iratxe Puebla

PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, Cambridge, UK

Michael Maia Schlüssel

Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK