title: [Guidelines for research reports: an application of CONSORT 2010 statements].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Reporting guidelines are not only useful for authors in compiling complete and transparent reports but they can use also be used by readers for the critical appraisal of the study. In this study, we apply the CONSORT 2010 reporting guideline to illustrate its value as the first step in the critical appraisal.
  
  
  METHODS
  We have applied the checklist of the CONSORT 201 statement to the publication of Richter et al. [7]. This has been done by both authors independently. We report for each item of the 25 item checklist whether it was adequately reported, and we comment on each item.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The paper of Richter et al. does not comply with the CONSORT 2010 checklist and the CONSORT extension for summaries in all items.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most important reporting guidelines are now available in German (https://www.thieme-connect.de/ejournals/toc/dmw/104011). They are useful for authors of research articles to compile complete and transparent reports. Readers can use items of these reporting guidelines for judging the quality of a published study. To this end, there is a need to distinguish between reporting quality and the quality of a specific study.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik,Universität zu Lübeck,Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck Maria-Goeppert-Str. 123538 Lübeck. ziegler@imbs.uni-luebeck.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ziegler
authors.forename: I R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: König
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011642:Publications / Q000592:standards*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*