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Figure 1. Types of clinical studies: it is recommended to include the type of study clearly in the title and/ or the abstract of a manuscript. Reporting guidelines (colomn 3) are available on the web to help authors in preparing manuscripts for publication.
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a: CONSORT statement: Consolidated standards of reporting trials. www.consort-statement.org(11)
b: TREND statement: Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non- randomized Designs. http://www.cdc.gov/trendstatement/(12)
c: STROBE statement: Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology. www.strobe-statement.org(13)
d: STARLITE statement: Standards for reporting literature searches.(14)
e: PRISMA statement: Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews
and meta-analyses. www.prisma-statement.org(15)
f: MOOSE statement: Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in
Epidemiology.(16)