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ArticleBMC medical research methodology2001

The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trials.

D Moher, K F Schulz, D G Altman, CONSORT

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Article in BMC medical research methodology, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 306 papers, 26 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

306 citing papers in PubMed, 26 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  12. Action observation for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  13. Chlorpromazine versus penfluridol for schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

D MoherUniversity of Ottawa, Thomas C, Chalmers Centre for Systematic Reviews, Ottawa, Canada. dmoher@uottawa.ca
K F Schulz
D G Altman
CONSORT

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To comprehend the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT), readers must understand its design, conduct, analysis and interpretation. That goal can only be achieved through complete transparency from authors. Despite several decades of educational efforts, the reporting of RCTs needs improvement. Investigators and editors developed the original CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement to help authors improve reporting by using a checklist and flow diagram. The revised CONSORT statement presented in this paper incorporates new evidence and addresses some criticisms of the original statement.The checklist items pertain to the content of the Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. The revised checklist includes 22-items selected because empirical evidence indicates that not reporting the information is associated with biasedestimates of treatment effect or the information is essential to judge the reliability or relevance of the findings. We intended the flow diagram to depict the passage of participants through an RCT. The revised flow diagram depicts information from four stages of a trial (enrollment, intervention allocation, follow-up, and analysis). The diagram explicitly includes the number of participants, for each intervention group, included in the primary data analysis. Inclusion of these numbers allows the reader to judge whether the authors have performed an intention-to-treat analysis.In sum, the CONSORT statement is intended to improve the reporting of an RCT, enabling readers to understand a trial's conduct and to assess the validity of its results.

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HumansPublishingQuality ControlRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicReproducibility of Results

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PMID11336663
PMCPMC32201

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