DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-144-5-200603070-00013

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Reporting Randomized, Controlled Trials of Herbal Interventions: An Elaborated CONSORT Statement

Joel Gagnier,Heather Boon,Paula A. Rochon,David Moher,Joanne Barnes,Claire Bombardier

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2006

Herbal medicinal products are widely used, vary greatly in content and quality, and are actively tested in randomized, controlled trials (RCTs). The authors' objective was to develop recommendations for reporting RCTs of herbal medicine interventions, based on the need to elaborate on the 22-item CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) checklist. Telephone calls were made and a consensus meeting was held with 16 participants in Toronto, Canada, to develop these recommendations. The group agreed on context-specific elaborations of 9 CONSORT checklist items for RCTs of herbal medicines. Item 4, concerning the herbal medicine intervention, required the most extensive elaboration. These recommendations have been developed to improve the reporting of RCTs using herbal medicine interventions.

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“Reporting Randomized, Controlled Trials of Herbal Interventions: An Elaborated CONSORT Statement” is a paper by Joel Gagnier Heather Boon Paula A. Rochon David Moher Joanne Barnes Claire Bombardier published in 2006. It has an Open Access status of “closed”. You can read and download a PDF Full Text of this paper here.