2017 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 61-68
This paper describes points to note when conducting intervention studies, especially randomized controlled trials, on fall prevention.
General information is also provided on basic requirements for an investigator to engage in medical research, including rules to observe, considerations in research design, methodological aspects of a controlled trial for nonpharmacological treatment, conflicts of interest and authorship, and association between foods with function claims and fall-prevention intervention. Priorities for appropriately designing, conducting and reporting data in a randomized controlled trial were compiled by referring to the CONSORT 2010 checklist, the SPIRIT checklist, the extended CONSORT checklist for trials with nonpharmacologic treatment, and the 15 check items recommended by Prof. Origasa.
Conducting studies by adhering to these points will improve the quality of trial and reporting, which will lead to the provision of sufficient and useful information to readers.
