title: CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomized trials.
authors.affiliation: From Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Wolfson College, Oxford, United Kingdom; and the Ottawa Methods Centre, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Kenneth F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Douglas G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Altman
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moher
mesh_terms: D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards
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