Quality of reporting of trial abstracts needs to be improved: using the CONSORT for abstracts to assess the four leading Chinese medical journals of traditional Chinese medicine

Table 1 Number of abstracts identified and included from four TCM ^a of Chinese medical journals (2006 to 2007)

Journals	IF^b	Identified RCT^c	Included abstracts
Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion	0.437	165	154
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine	0.837	261	158
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine	0.598	21	19
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica	0.634	48	14
Total		495	345

a TCM: traditional Chinese medicine
b Impact factor (IF) comes from «2007 data for sci-tech Journal Citation Reports of China»
c RCT: randomized controlled trial

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