Background: Current guidelines for randomized controlled trial reporting do not require
authors to justify their choice of time horizon. This is concerning, as the time horizon when …

The advent of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has undoubtedly changed the face of clinical
medicine. It has not only altered the way clinical research is approached but it has also …

Introduction Poor reporting can lead to inadequate presentation of data, confusion regarding
research methodology used, selective reporting of results, and other misinformation …

Clinicians rely on review articles to keep current with the rapid accumulation of medical and
surgical literature. Traditional expert reviews, however, often suffer from inherent personal …

Background Evidence-based medicine underpins medical and surgical practice, with level
of evidence (LOE) being a key aspect that allows clinicians and researchers to better …

Revised: 30 Dec 2013• Accepted: 30 Dec 2013 pISSN: 2234-6163• eISSN: 2234-6171
http://dx. doi. org/10.5999/aps. 2014.41. 1.1• Arch Plast Surg 2014; 41: 1-2 observational …

We took interest in the update of the STROCSS 2019 guideline [1] and its role in improving
the quality of research reporting in observational studies including cohort, case-control and …

Background: The authors investigated the methodological validity of plastic surgery
randomized controlled trials that compared surgical interventions. Methods: An electronic …

Background: The randomized controlled trial is a reliable study design for assessing the
effectiveness of a surgical intervention, provided it is adequately powered. This systematic …

Methods The 8 top-ranked plastic surgery journals were selected. We manually reviewed
the last 40 original articles in each plastic surgery journal, to represent more than 2 months …