Table 1.

Information to include in the abstract of a report of a within person randomised trial: extension of CONSORT for abstracts checklist

Item	Standard CONSORT checklist item3	Extension for within person trials
Title	Identification of study as randomised	Identification of study as a within person trial (or an alternative accepted term in the specialty)
Trial design	Description of the trial design (eg parallel, cluster, non-inferiority)
Methods:
Participants	Eligibility criteria for participants and the settings where the data were collected	Eligibility criteria for body sites
Interventions	Interventions intended for each group	Intervention timing: sequential or concurrent
Objective	Specific objective or hypothesis
Outcome	Clearly defined primary outcome for this report
Randomisation	How participants were allocated to interventions	How body sites were allocated within a single participant
Blinding(masking)	Whether or not participants, care givers, and those assessing the outcomes were blinded to group assignment
Results:
Numbers randomised	Number of participants randomised to each group	Number of body sites randomised to each group
Recruitment	Trial status
Numbers analysed	Number of participants analysed in each group	Number of body sites analysed in each group
Outcome	For the primary outcome, a result for each group and the estimated effect size and its precision
Harms	Important adverse events or side effects	For participants and for body sites
Conclusions	General interpretation of the results
Trial registration	Registration number and name of trial register
Funding	Source of funding