Table 1.
The ARRIVE guidelines checklist: Operationalized items and sub-items to facilitate assessment of reporting [6].
Fig 1.
Flow diagram of paper selection process.
Papers were selected from studies reporting research in anesthesia, analgesia and animal welfare from 5 veterinary journals.
Table 2.
Overall reporting quality in journals supporting (SUPP) and not supporting (nonSUPP) the ARRIVE guidelines for 2009 and 2015.
Table 3.
Papers fully reporting ARRIVE checklist items in supporting (SUPP) and non-supporting (nonSUPP) journals in 2009 and 2015.
Fig 2.
Bar graph of papers fully reporting individual items from the ARRIVE checklist.
Data from papers published in 2015 were pooled from ARRIVE supporting (SUPP, n = 61 papers) and non-supporting (nonSUPP, n = 55 papers) journals. Broken horizontal lines indicate reporting quality thresholds: excellent (> 80%), average (50–80%) and poor (< 50%) [12].
Fig 3.
Radar plot of ARRIVE checklist sub-items associated with bias reported in ARRIVE supporting (SUPP) and non-supporting (nonSUPP) journals in 2015.