Essential components to report in randomized clinical trials with respect to the analysis.

*It may be appropriate to exclude randomized patients in order to achieve efficiencies while preserving prognostic balance between groups if two conditions are met [23]: (1) allocation to treatment or control could not possibly influence whether a particular randomized individual met criteria for post-randomization exclusion, (2) the decision about post-randomization is made without possible bias (commonly achieved through review blinded to allocation). †There are various ways of handling missing data; we provide illustrative examples for reporting purposes. ‡For dichotomous outcome data.