title: Pharmacy journal abstracts published in PubMed that abide by the CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines.
abstract: The purpose of this research was to determine the proportion of abstracts in pharmacy journals that are prepared according to the CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) criteria for abstracts. Certain abstracts for randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) indexed in PubMed were eligible for inclusion, with the primary endpoint being median overall compliance to CONSORT recommendations for abstracts. A total of 63 RCT abstracts were included in the analysis, with only 56% of the recommended CONSORT items represented in the sample. It is recommended that pharmacy journals encourage authors to follow CONSORT recommendations for abstracts when submitting RCTs for publication.
authors.affiliation: dblair@samford.edu , Drug Information Specialty Resident, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; (corresponding author), pjhughes@samford.edu , Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; twwoole@samford.edu , Professor of Statistics, Brock School of Business; Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229.
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Blair
authors.affiliation: dblair@samford.edu , Drug Information Specialty Resident, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; (corresponding author), pjhughes@samford.edu , Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; twwoole@samford.edu , Professor of Statistics, Brock School of Business; Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.affiliation: dblair@samford.edu , Drug Information Specialty Resident, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; (corresponding author), pjhughes@samford.edu , Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, McWhorter School of Pharmacy; twwoole@samford.edu , Professor of Statistics, Brock School of Business; Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229.
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Woolley
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards*; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010604:Pharmacy; D039781:PubMed; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*