CONSORT

Following the Editorial Board Meeting at the international Association for Dental Research (IADR) Congress in Vancouver, it was agreed that from July 1 1999 authors submitting manuscripts of randomised controlled trials (RCTs ) to the British Dental Journal will need to adhere to the CONSORT guidelin es for the reporting of RCTs. But, what is CONSORT? Why is the BDJ adapting these guidelines and how will it help our readership to make better sense of clinical research?