Skip to main content

Table 2 Summary statistics on correction letter publication

From: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time

 

Annals

BMJ

JAMA

Lancet

NEJM

Total

Letters required

5

2

11

20

20

58

Percentage of letters required

100.00%

66.70%

84.60%

83.30%

90.90%

86.6% (95% CI 78.4–94.7%)

Letters published

5

2

0

16

0

23

Percentage of letters published

100%

100%

0%

80%

0%

39.7% (95% CI 27.0%–53.4%)

Mean publication delay for published letters

0 days (online)

0 days (online)

n/a

150 days

n/a

104 days (median 99 days, range 0–257 days)

  1. Abbreviations: BMJ British Medical Journal, CI confidence interval, CONSORT Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials, JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association, n/a not applicable, NEJM New England Journal of Medicine