In recent years, efforts have been made to improve the quality of reporting of RCTs. The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement provides a 22-item checklist and subject flow chart for the transparent reporting of RCTs. This statement has been adopted
as a framework for the reporting of RCTs by a large number of medical, clinical, and psychological journals (153, according to http://www.consort-statement.org, as of September 16, 2003). Use of the CONSORT statement
has improved the quality of RCT reports over the past several years. There is yet, however, no agreed-upon framework for the transparent reporting of nonrandomized
research evaluations.