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Table 7 Overall reporting quality scores for included studies, by subgroup

From: Quality of reporting of integrative Chinese and Western medicine intervention in randomized controlled trials of ulcerative colitis: a review

Year of publication(n)

For CONSORT items1

For CONSORT for Abstract items2

For ICWM-specific items3

1998–2010 (n = 300)

17 (15–20)

11 (9–12)

16 (13–19)

2011–2022 (n = 1158)

23 (20–26)*,a

14 (12–15)*,b

19 (15–23)*,c

Total reports (n = 1458)

21 (18–25)

13 (12–15)

18 (15–21)

  1. 1A perfect score is 72 for the CONSORT checklist
  2. 2A perfect score is 34 for the CONSORT for Abstract checklist
  3. 3A perfect score is 54 for the ICWM-specific checklist
  4. *Compared with 1998–2010, P < 0.01
  5. aCompared with the group before 2010, the enhancement of CONSORT was 4.92 (4.4–5.43)
  6. b Compared with the group before 2010, the enhancement of CONSORT for Abstract was 3.02 (2.69–3.35)
  7. c Compared with the group before 2010, the enhancement of ICWM-specific items was 3.03 (2.48–3.59)
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