Permission to use CONSORT
The CONSORT Statement and the CONSORT Explanation and Elaboration Document are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
However, because the guidelines represent a consensus agreed through successive drafts by the CONSORT Group, they should not be edited or modified in any way, although it is acceptable to publish portions (e.g., the summary).
Page last edited: 24 August 2011
