title: [Quality assessment on reports of randomized controlled trials of oral and maxillofacial surgery in China].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the report quality of randomized controlled trials (RCT) of oral and maxillofacial surgery in China during 2000-2009.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comprehensive electronic search was carried out through Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals (VIP) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and 19 kinds of journals of stomatology in China were also hand-searched. We identified RCT published between 2000 and 2009, and classified into oral and maxillofacial surgery and labeled "random" and assessed the quality of these reports using the consolidated standards of reporting trials (CONSORT) statement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  53 RCT articles were included. Reporting quality of the 53 articles was not high and the CONSORT score was 8.2 +/- 2.5.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The reporting quality of RCT of oral and maxillofacial surgery in China is poor. The CONSORT statement should be used to standardize the reporting of RCT.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Trauma and Plastic Surgery, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Wenhang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Chunjie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chenyang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: Zongdao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Weidong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tian
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D019242:Oral Medicine; D011643:Publishing; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D013515:Surgery, Oral