Medina-Aedo, Melixa; Torralba-Martinez, Elena; Segura-Carrillo, Cristian; Buitrago Garcia, Diana; Solà, Ivan; Pardo-Hernández, Héctor; Bonfill, Xavier (2022). Finding and evaluating randomised controlled trials in nursing conducted by Spanish research teams: A scoping review. Health information and libraries journal, 39(4), pp. 312-322. Wiley 10.1111/hir.12464
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES
To identify and assess the main characteristics and the potential risk of bias of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in nursing conducted by Spanish research teams.
METHODS
Scoping review of an electronic search in three major databases (date of search: October 2021). For the eligible studies, both descriptive data, and data to assess the potential risk of bias, were collected and analysed.
RESULTS
Of 3391 references retrieved, 199 were eligible. These RCTs were published in 122 journals, most of them in English (101, 82.1%) and were included in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) (107, 87.7%). Moreover, 32 (26.2%) of those included in the JCR were classified under nursing. Two thirds (81, 66.4%) of the journals followed the CONSORT guidelines. A total of 65 RCTs (33.7%) had a high overall risk of bias.
DISCUSSION
Most of the identified RCTs were published in journals not specific to nursing and in English language. Also, shortcomings in RCT design and reporting were observed despite recommendations to adhere the CONSORT guidelines.
CONCLUSION
Comprehensive identification of RCTs in nursing may require searching in journals other than nursing-related. RCTs from Spanish research teams are more likely to be published in international journals published in English. CONSORT should be strongly advised to encourage proper design and reporting of RCTs.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Buitrago Garcia, Diana Carolina |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services |
ISSN: |
1471-1834 |
Publisher: |
Wiley |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
07 Nov 2022 12:30 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:27 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1111/hir.12464 |
PubMed ID: |
36333980 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
evidence-based nursing literature searching nurses nursing randomised controlled trial review, scoping |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/174533 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174533 |
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