Extending CONSORT to include cluster trials

CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials.

Education and debate CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials

Reports of cluster randomised trials require additional information to allow readers to interpret them accurately The effective reporting of randomised controlled trials has received useful attention in recent years. Many journals now require that reports conform to the guidelines in the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement, first published in 1996 and revised in 2001....

Consort 2010 statement: extension to cluster randomised trials.

The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement was developed to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials. It was initially published in 1996 and focused on the reporting of parallel group randomised controlled trials. The statement was revised in 2001, with a further update in 2010. A separate CONSORT statement for the reporting of abstracts was published in 200...

Extending OCL to include Actions

The UML’s Object Constraint Language provides the modeller of object-oriented systems with ways to express the semantics of a model in a precise and declarative manner. The constraints which can be expressed in this language, all state requirements on the static aspects of the system. The Object Constraint Language currently lacks a way to express that events have happened or will happen, that ...

Extending the CONSORT statement to randomized trials of nonpharmacologic treatment: explanation and elaboration.

Adequate reporting of randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) is necessary to allow accurate critical appraisal of the validity and applicability of the results. The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) Statement, a 22-item checklist and flow diagram, is intended to address this problem by improving the reporting of RCTs. However, some specific issues that apply to trials of nonpha...