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Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine ›› 2010, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (7): 604-612.doi: 10.3736/jcim20100702

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CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials (Chinese version)

Kenneth F Schulza,Douglas G Altmanb,David Moherc,the CONSORT Group   

  1. a Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    b Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford,Wolf son College,Oxford,UK
    c Ottawa Methods Centre, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  • Received:2010-05-24 Online:2010-07-20 Published:2010-07-15
  • Contact: Kenneth F Schulz E-mail:kschulz@fhi.org

The CONSORT statement is used worldwide to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials. Kenneth Schulz and colleagues describe the latest version, CONSORT 2010, which updates the reporting guideline based on new methodological evidence and accumulating experience. To encourage dissemination of the CONSORT 2010 Statement, this article is freely accessible on bmj.com and will also be published in the Lancet, Obstetrics and Gynecology, PLoS Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Open Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, BMC Medicine, and Trials.

Key words: Clinical trials, Randomized controlled trials, Guidelines, CONSORT

Figure 1

Flow diagram of the progress through the phases of a parallel randomised trial of two groups (that is, enrolment, intervention allocation, follow-up, and data analysis)"

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