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Strict reporting standards for complex surgical interventions in randomized controlled trials may be impractical to fully implement and are not always necessary.
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The authors argue that while reporting standards for surgical trials need improvement, overly detailed descriptions of complex surgical interventions may be impractical.
Cook and colleagues highlight that descriptions of non-pharmacological interventions in randomised controlled trials are inadequate.1 Although reporting standards need to be improved, the level of information they suggest may not always be necessary. Surgical interventions are complex, comprising many components that are delivered with multiple concomitant interventions (such as anaesthesia and postoperative care), so it may be impractical to control them all. Individual surgeons …
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Blencowe et al. (2013) studied this question. Strict reporting standards for complex surgical interventions in randomized controlled trials may be impractical to fully implement and are not always necessary.
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