Elsevier built a text mining tool for semi-automated checking of clinical trial reports against the CONSORT guidelines, identifying statements corresponding to checklist items so authors and editors can see what's missing.
Benefits & outcomes
Missing or incomplete CONSORT items flagged during manuscript preparation.
Editors and reviewers can enforce reporting standards without reading for the checklist manually.
Notes & quotes
"Such a tool could assist authors in ensuring completeness of their reports, journal editors in enforcing transparency requirements, as well as reviewers and others in critically appraising clinical trials transparency and rigor criteria."
Led by Anita de Waard and Joshua Fisher in Elsevier's Research Collaboration Unit. A modest step—but who wouldn't want a machine to point out their oversights?
Publisher / company: Elsevier
Date of mention: 12/12/2023
Source: https://researchcollaborations.elsevier.com/en/projects/semi-automated-compliance-check-with-consort-guidelines