• 1. The Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Gynaecology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510120, P. R. China;
YANG Hongyan, Email: dryanghongyan@163.com
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Objective To analyze the status quo of outcome indicators in the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of premature ovarian failure (POF)/primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) published at home and abroad, and provide a sufficient basis for the selection of outcome indicators in related studies in the future.Methods China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Chongqing VIP Data, Wanfang Data, SinoMed, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and Embase were searched for RCT articles of POF/POI published between the establishment of the databases and June 2021. Two researchers independently screened and extracted the literature, and finally summarized the outcome indicators of the included studies.Results A total of 186 articles meeting the inclusion criteria were selected, including 180 articles in Chinese and 6 articles in English. The choice of outcome indicators was diverse. Of the 186 articles, 2 Chinese articles and 1 English article used primary and secondary outcome indicators; 19 Chinese articles and 4 English articles used independent indicators, 4 Chinese articles used composite indicators, and 157 Chinese articles and 2 English articles used both independent indicators and composite indicators.Conclusions The selection and use of outcome indicators in clinical RCTs of POF/POI are not standardized, and there are problems such as neglect of primary and secondary outcome indicators, and lack of standards for the selection of clinical research outcome indicators. As a result, the credibility of the curative effect is reduced, and the results of similar studies cannot be combined and compared.

Citation: WEN Zhaorui, LIU Jian, NIE Guangning, LI Yang, YANG Hongyan. Status analysis of outcome indicators in randomized controlled studies of premature ovarian failure/primary ovarian insufficiency. West China Medical Journal, 2021, 36(8): 1093-1101. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202011254 Copy

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