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<h2 id="consort-statement">CONSORT statement<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#consort-statement"></a>
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<p>CONSORT diagrams are part of the requirements in reporting parallel
group clinical trials or case control designs in observational studies.
They are described in the updated 2010 CONSORT statement <span class="citation">(Schulz, Altman, and Moher 2010)</span>. They clarify
how patients were recruited, selected, randomised and followed up. For
observational studies a