Adherence to published standards of reporting: A comparison of placebo-controlled trials published in English or German.

32 German and 89 English trial reports in 5 and 58 journals, respectively, were used in this study. Report quality was defined as "adherence to published standards on trial reporting". A scale for the assessment of reporting quality items was constructed. 50% of the reports met 9 or more of the 18 criteria. Most frequently, information was missing in articles for confidence interval, method of randomization, reference of statistical software used, and sample size calculation. No difference between German and English articles was found. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)