Do emergency medicine journals promote trial registration and adherence to reporting guidelines? A survey of “Instructions for Authors”

Table 2 Use of reporting guidelines and study registration by journal

★ = Required/Compulsory, ✔ = Recommended, ? = Unclear, Boxes filled with grey = journal does not accept the study design requiring these guidelines, Boxes filled with red = journal does not accept the study design yet the “Instructions for Authors” mention the guideline, * = editor in chief did not respond to email inquiry. (Impact Factor) = self-calculated impact factor by the journal. All data was extracted on June 4, 2016 except Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Internal and Emergency Medicine, & Western Journal of Emergency Medicine which data extraction occurred on October 27, 2016

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