The CONSORT statement

The JAAD adopts the CONSORT statement.

CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials.

Evidence based medicine, the Cochrane Collaboration, and the CONSORT statement.

Evidence based practice uses up to date information to inform decisions on the management of an individual’s health problem. To most, this would seem a basic premise for medical practice, but there has been a backlash against the growth of the evidence based medicine movement. Some insist that their practice has always been evidence based and that responsible clinicians keep up to date by readi...

The importance of the new CONSORT Statement for clinicians.

155 Editorial The Consolidated Standard of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement is an international consensus guide and checklist to improve reports on randomised clinical trials (RCTs). The standard was developed in response to evidence that RCTs have been reported inadequately over the last three decades (Chan and Bhandari 2007, Dickinson et al 2000, Poolman et al 2006), in spite of education...

Adherence of trials of operative intervention to the CONSORT statement

I read your article with interest. However, a sentence under the subheading ‘Cardiopulmonary exercise testing’ in the methods section (‘Two key measurements can be determined from these data, [oxygen uptake at peak exercise and anaerobic threshold], indicating the point at which anaerobic metabolism is inadequate to maintain high energy phosphate production [...]’) does not coincide with the pr...