Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials

In recent years there have been a range of recommendations regarding the structure of publications how they should be laid out and what they should contain. These have usually been in the form of checklists and all of this has been encapsulated within the CONSORT statement (Moher et al. (2001) and Altman et al. (2001)). CONSORT is an acronym for Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and increasingly many medical journals have adopted this guidance in terms of requiring their clinical trial publications to conform to it. There is a web site which provides up-to-date information and helpful resources and examples WWW. consort- statement.org. 

Guidelines for reporting clinical trials in clinical publications are provided by the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) group (see... 

Guidelines for reporting clinical trials in clinical communications are provided by the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) group. We recommend that you read the CONSORT statements (see www. consort-statement, org). We also refer you to Bowers et al. (2006) and Stuart (2007) for extensive coverage of this topic. 

The major factors involved in the design, conduct, and reporting of human studies can be adapted from the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) checklist for medical trials [65]. Recently, the ILSI has published their own guidelines for the design, conduct, and reporting of human intervention studies to evaluate the health benefits of foods [66]. 

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