Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials: The Reporting Guideline for Randomized Controlled Trials

Reporting of clinical trials in Gut: the CONSORT statement. Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials.

Important considerations in calculating and reporting of sample size in randomized controlled trials

Background: The calculation of the sample size is one of the most important steps in designing a randomized controlled trial. The purpose of this study is drawing the attention of researchers to the importance of calculating and reporting the sample size in randomized controlled trials.    Methods: We reviewed related literature and guidelines and discussed some important issues in s...

Adherence to the CONSORT Statement in the Reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials on Pharmacological Interventions Published in Iranian Medical Journals

Background: Among manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) form the backbone of evidence-based medicine. Hence, their protocol should be designed rigorously and their results should be reported clearly. To improve the quality of RCT reporting, researchers developed the CONSORT Statement in 1996 and updated it in 2010. This study was designed to assess th...

Reporting the clinical importance of randomized controlled trials.

T implement bedside rationing as described in Peter Ubel’s Pricing Life: Why It’s Time for Health Care Rationing would most certainly set medical ethics back 2500 years by ignoring the issue of patient trust, which gave rise to the traditional Hippocratic oath. The fundamental unit of health care is the physician–patient relationship. For physicians to knowingly withhold beneficial services fro...

Quality of reports on randomized controlled trials published in Iranian journals: application of the new version of consolidated standards of reporting trials (CONSORT).

BACKGROUND The Consolidated Standards for Reporting of Trials (CONSORT) statement is a device to standardize reporting and improve the quality of controlled trials. The aim of this study is to determine the quality of controlled clinical trial reports by national peer-reviewed journals in Iran. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, we evaluated clinical trial reports by national peer-reviewed I...