Transcription of research methods & reporting - CONSORT Statement
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research methods & reporting - CONSORT Statement
BMJ | online FiRST | 1 of 28research methods & reporting The whole of medicine depends on the transparent report ing of clinical trials. 1 Well designed and properly executed randomised con trolled trials (RCTs) provide the most reliable evidence on the efficacy of healthcare interventions, but trials with inadequate methods are associated with bias, especially exaggerated treatment 5 Biased results from poorly designed and reported trials can mislead decision making in health care at all levels, from treatment decisions for a patient to formulation of national public health appraisal of the quality of clinical trials is possible only if the design, conduct, and analysis of RCTs are thor oughly and accurately described in the report. Far from being transparent, the reporting of RCTs is often incomplete,6 9 com pounding problems arising from poor 15incomplete and inaccurate reportingMany reviews have documented deficiencies in reports of clinical trials.
inferiority, equivalence, factorial, cluster, and crossover tri ‑ als. Extensions to the CONSORT checklist for reporting trials with some of these designs have been published, 39 ‑41 as have those for reporting certain types of data (harms 42), types of interventions (non‑pharmacological treatments 43, herbal interventions44), and ...
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