[EQ] Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement 2010

CONSORT 2010 Statement published

 

Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
24 March 2010

 

Available online at: http://www.consort-statement.org/consort-statement/overview0/

New guidance to improve the reporting of trial findings was published simultaneously on 24 March 2010 by nine leading journals around the world
- BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMC Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, The Lancet, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Open Medicine, PLoS Medicine, and Trials.

 

Full and transparent reporting of trials is crucial to ensure that decisions about health care are based on the best available evidence.

 

The latest version, CONSORT 2010 (1), improves the specificity and clarity of the previous checklist. Several new items will also make it easier for decision makers to judge the soundness of trial results. A separate explanatory paper (2), also published in the BMJ and the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology provides published examples of transparent reporting and elaborates on the empirical evidence that forms the basis for the guidance…..”

 

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CONSORT Statement 2010:

·         Annals of Internal Medicine (PDF)(HTML)

·         BMC Medicine (HTML)

·         BMJ (PDF)(HTML)

·         Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (PDF)

·         Lancet (PDF)

·         Open Medicine (PDF)(HTML)

·         PLoS Medicine (PDF)(HTML)

·         Trials (HTML)

CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration Document:

·         BMJ (PDF)(HTML)

·         Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (PDF)

Related articles:

Moher D, Hopewell S, Schulz KF, Montori V, Gotzsche PC, Devereaux PJ, Elbourne D, Egger M, Altman DG.
CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials.
BMJ  2010;340: c869-c869 [Full text]   

Hopewell S, Dutton S, Yu LM, Chan AW, Altman DG.
The quality of reports of randomised trials in 2000 and 2006:
comparative study of articles indexed in PubMed. BMJ 2010;340:c723 [Full text].

Antes, G. The new CONSORT statement.
BMJ  2010;340: c1432-c1432 [Full text]   

Williams HC. Cars,
CONSORT 2010, and Clinical Practice. Trials 2010, 11:33 [full text]

The Lancet, 24 March 2010

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60456-4 CONSORT 2010
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)60456-4/fulltext

 

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