CONSORT Plus

Complete CONSORT Plus Guideline
		University of California San Francisco


	Randomized trials are the gold standard experiment for clinical knowledge, yet reports of trials are often incomplete and ambiguous. The CONSORT trial reporting recommendations seeks to improve the reporting of trials in journal articles. CONSORT Plus is an extension of the CONSORT requirements to trial-bank publishing. Trial banks are structured, standardized, electronic knowledge bases of RCTS. CONSORT Plus is therefore more extensive than CONSORT, and it imposes data integrity constraints that are not possible in text-based reporting. For a task-based justification of these reporting requirements, see our task analysis of systematic reviewing. The pages below list the Required, Recommended and Optional items in the CONSORT Plus guidelines. Required items are those items essential for systematic reviewing (see references). In trial-bank publishing, Bank-a-Trial will enforce the reporting of the CONSORT Plus required items, and will be able to accommodate the reporting of recommended and optional items. CONSORT Plus Guideline (version 1.1) Full List of Items By Concept Group Administration Study Design Subjects and Recruitment Randomization and Treatment Assignment Interventions Outcomes and Analysis Outcomes Assessment Followup Results Publications Minimal Data Set Please comment on the items themselves and on whether they should be required for trial-bank reporting.



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CONSORT Plus Guideline (version 1.1)