CONSORT for Reporting Randomized Controlled Trials in Journal and Conference Abstracts: Explanation and Elaboration

• Sally Hopewell ,

  *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

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• Mike Clarke,

  Affiliations UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom , School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• David Moher,

  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

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• Elizabeth Wager,

  Affiliation Sideview, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

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• Philippa Middleton,

  Affiliation Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Douglas G Altman,

  Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Kenneth F Schulz,

  Affiliation Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

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• and the CONSORT Group