Low risk of bias: studies that considered all CONSORT-harms criteria or reasons for excluding specific criteria were transparent and justified.
Little has changed, the order today consisting of the Queen, her consort the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, and 24 Knights Companion (excluding the Queen's other sons and the Ladies of the Garter).
The meeting agenda included: a review of relevant evidence, discussion of the rationale for including or excluding items in a PRO reporting standards checklist from the point of view of the multiple stakeholders at the table, anonymous voting on the proposed standards, the development of a draft CONSORT extension, and the development of a knowledge translation and dissemination strategy [ 13, 14].
Four CONSORT items were excluded because they were not applicable (19 (Harms), and 23 - 25 (Other information)), leaving a maximum score of 21 for each study (one point for each CONSORT item satisfied).
The CONSORT discussion items were excluded because of the subjective nature in assessing them.
Three methodological items, which are a part of the CONSORT statement, were also excluded from our 14 point OQRS for a separate assessment to create the KMIS.
CONSORT items under "discussion" were excluded as we deemed them to be too subjective to assess.
Due to major protocol violations, 9 patients in the active-group and 8 patients in the placebo-group were excluded from efficacy analysis (Figure 1). Figure 1 Consort diagram showing recruitment and flow of participants through trial.
He was, surely, one of the most tested, impressive and amusing consorts of all time, Prince Albert not excluded.
He remembered Bob Monkhouse and Sir Denis Thatcher ("He was, surely, one of the most tested, impressive and amusing consorts of all time, Prince Albert not excluded"), Danny La Rue and Mary Whitehouse ("Her benevolently steely smile, baroque spectacles and ready quotes made her better known than most government ministers").
