Familiarity with Consolidated Standards in Reporting Trials (Consort)

The whole of medicine depends on the transparent reporting of clinical trials. Trials with inadequate methods are associated with bias, especially exaggerated treatment effects. Better reporting of clinical trials is essential. Fortunately, consort statement is a very helpful instrument in this field. Consort check List contains a list of information items that must be included in randomized trial reporting. This check list is discussed under six sections, including: title and abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and other information. Considering to the widely utilization of the consort statement by valid journals, it is essential that authors, reviewers and readers of internal journals get familiar with the provisions of this declaration, and understand how to correctly use this standardized reporting checklist for the clinical trials. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the consort statement and have some discussion about it.