About the Authors
- Sally Hopewell
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shopewell@cochrane.co.uk
Affiliations UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom , Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Mike Clarke
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Affiliations UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom , School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- David Moher
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Affiliations Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada , Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Elizabeth Wager
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Affiliation Sideview, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom
- Philippa Middleton
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Affiliation Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
- Douglas G Altman
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Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Kenneth F Schulz
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Affiliation Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- and the CONSORT Group
Competing Interests
All authors are involved in many initiatives in health care and healthcare research which should benefit from a wide uptake of the CONSORT for Abstracts statement.
Author Contributions
SH, MC, DM, EW, and PM were involved in the design, implementation, analysis of the study, and in writing and commenting on drafts on the final manuscript. DGA and KFS were involved in the analysis of the study and commenting on drafts on the final manuscript.