Specifying interventions in a clinical trial

Brighton, Jackie K; Gebski, Val J; Keech, Anthony C

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04409.x

Topics

Statistics, epidemiology and research design

The CONSORT statement is a checklist and flow diagram developed by an international group of clinical triallists, statisticians, epidemiologists and biomedical editors for reporting randomised controlled trials.1 Item 4 in the checklist relates to interventions (Box 1).

NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW.

Correspondence: enquiry@ctc.usyd.edu.au

1. Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials. Ann Intern Med 2001; 134: 657–662.
2. Friedman LM, Furberg CD, DeMets DL. Fundamentals of clinical trials. 3rd ed. New York: Springer, 1998.
3. Pocock SJ. Clinical trials: a practical approach. Chichester: Wiley, 1983.
4. Altman DG, Schulz KF, Moher D, et al, for the CONSORT group. The revised CONSORT statement for reporting randomized trials: explanation and elaboration. Ann Intern Med 2001; 134: 663–694.

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