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The CONSORT Group > CONSORT Statement > Overview DOWNLOADSCONSORT Statement 2010: CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration Document: The CONSORT Statement is intended to improve the reporting of a randomized controlled trial (RCT), enabling readers to understand a trial's design, conduct, analysis and interpretation, and to assess the validity of its results. It emphasizes that this can only be achieved through complete transparency from authors. Investigators and editors developed and revised the CONSORT (CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) Statement to help authors improve reporting of two-parallel design RCTs by using a checklist and flow diagram. Extensions of the CONSORT Statement have been developed for other types of study designs, interventions and data. The Checklist The checklist items pertain to the content of the Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Other information. Templates of the CONSORT 2010 checklist are available to download in MS Word and in PDF. The Flow Diagram Translations

The EQUATOR Network | Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of Health Research Scientific Writing Skills and Technical Writing Skills PRISMA GRADE working group Equator > About EQUATOR > EQUATOR publications > EQUATOR Network publications 2010 Simera I, Moher D, Hoey J, Schulz KF, Altman DG. A catalogue of reporting guidelines for health research. Eur J Clin Invest. 2010;40(1):35-53. PMID: 20055895 Full text (Eur J Clin Invest – open access) To view or print the current list of identified guidelines available on the EQUATOR website please see: – current full list (updated 23 August 2013) Simera I, Moher D, Hirst A, Hoey J, Schulz KF, Altman DG. Moher D, Schulz KF, Simera I, Altman DG. Altman DG, Simera I.