CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials
Queen Mary University of London · University of Sheffield · +5 more institutions
Abstract
The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement is a guideline designed to improve the transparency and quality of the reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). In this article we present an extension to that statement for randomised pilot and feasibility trials conducted in advance of a future definitive RCT. The checklist applies to any randomised study in which a future definitive RCT, or part of it, is conducted on a smaller scale, regardless of its design (eg, cluster, factorial, crossover) or the terms used by authors to describe the study (eg, pilot, feasibility, trial, study). The extension does not directly apply to internal pilot studies built into the design of a main…
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Authors
8- OBon behalf of the PAFS consensus groupCorresponding
Queen Mary University of London
- SESandra Eldridge
Queen Mary University of London
- CCClaire Chan
Queen Mary University of London, University of Sheffield
- MJMichael J. Campbell
University of Aberdeen, University of Sheffield
- CBChristine Bond
University of Aberdeen, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, University of Oxford
Topics & keywords
- Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
- Statement (logic)
- Extension (predicate logic)
- Medicine
- Psychology
- Randomized controlled trial
- Computer science
- Political science