Endorsement of the CONSORT statement by high impact medical journals: survey of instructions for authors

It would nice if more journals mentioned CONSORT in their
instructions to authors. However, the key thing is for peer reviewers to
be aware of CONSORT. A CONSORT-aware peer reviewer can insist (either
implicitly or expclicitly) that a trial report is CONSORT compliant
regardless of the policy of the journal. A sloppy peer reviewer might fail
to notice deviations from CONSORT even if CONSORT is in the official
"instructions to authors" (it is not difficult to find CONSORT non-compliant RCTs in journals recommending use of the CONSORT statement. )

Competing interests:
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