 This group also published recommendations for authors reporting randomized trials.At the suggestion of Dr. Drummond Rennie, from JAMA, in 1995 representatives from both these groups met in Chicago, USA, with the aim of merging the best of the SORT and Asilomar proposals into a single, coherent evidence-based recommendation.This resulted in the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement, which was first published in 1996.