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Table 3 Consistency in reporting between Chinese and English abstracts

From: 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

Items

No. of consistent abstracts (%)

Kappa[95%CI]

Title

338(98%)

0.86[0.75 to 0.96]

Author

344(100%)

1.00[1.00 to 1.00]

Trial design

343(99%)

0.85[0.65 to 1.00]

Participants

291(84%)

0.64[0.55 to 0.72]

Interventions

316(92%)

0.86[0.80 to 0.90]

Objective

328(95%)

0.76[0.66 to 0.86]

Outcome

343(99%)

0.95[0.85 to 1.00]

Randomization

338(98%)

0.76[0.59 to 0.93]

Blinding

345(100%)

1.00[1.00 to 1.00]

Numbers randomized

309(90%)

0.73[0.65 to 0.81]

Numbers analysis

344(100%)

0.91[0.79 to 1.00]

Outcome

326(95%)

0.89[0.84 to 0.94]

Harms

335(97%)

0.88[0.80 to 0.95]

Conclusions

316(92%)

0.99[0.98 to 1.00]