Kaiping Zhang1,2, Yanfang Ma3, Qianling Shi4, Jinlin Wu5, Jianfei Shen6, Yulong He4, Xianzhuo Zhang4, Panpan Jiao4, Grace S Li1, Xueqin Tang1, Rene Horsleben Petersen7, Calvin S H Ng8, Alfonso Fiorelli9, Nuria M Novoa10, Benedetta Bedetti11, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri12, Steven Hochwald13, Toni Lerut14, Alan D L Sihoe15, Leandro Cardoso Barchi16, Sebastien Gilbert17, Ryuichi Waseda18, Alper Toker19, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas20,21, Robert Fruscio22,23, Marco Scarci24, Fabio Davoli25, Guillaume Piessen26, Bin Qiu27, Stephen D Wang1, Yaolong Chen28,29, Shugeng Gao27. 1. Editorial Office, AME Publishing Company, Hong Kong, China. 2. School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. 3. Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China. 4. The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China. 5. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong, China. 6. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, Linhai, China. 7. University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. 8. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China. 9. Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy. 10. Thoracic Surgery Service, University Hospital of Salamanca, Biomedical Institute of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. 11. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Helios Clinic Bonn/Rhein Sieg, Bonn, Germany. 12. Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, S. Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy. 13. Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA. 14. Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. 15. Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China. 16. Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil. 17. Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 18. Department of General Thoracic, Breast and Pediatric Surgery, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan. 19. Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA. 20. Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant, Coruña University Hospital, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit (UCTMI), Coruña, Spain. 21. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. 22. Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy. 23. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. 24. Department of Thoracic Surgery, S. Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy. 25. Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna, S. Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital, Ravenna, Italy. 26. University of Lille, Department of Digestive and Oncological Surgery, Claude Huriez University Hospital, Lille, France. 27. Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. 28. World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation, Lanzhou, China. 29. Lanzhou University Institute of Health Data Science, Lanzhou, China.
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BACKGROUND: Standardized and transparent reporting of surgical technique is the cornerstone of effective dissemination, implementation and improvement. However, current reporting of surgical techniques is inadequate. The existing guidelines potentially applied to guide surgical technique reporting are with a minimal highlight of the surgical technique, lack requirements explaining what extent and dimensions need to be described in detail, or are unlikely to extrapolate to a wide range of surgical techniques. This study aims to formulate a rigorous protocol to develop a surgical technique reporting checklist and standards (SUPER) that defines what a clear, comprehensive and detailed surgical technique report should be contained. METHODS: This protocol is designed following the classic guidance for developing reporting guidelines recommended by the EQUATOR network. RESULTS: The development team will consist of surgeons (~80%), methodologists, and journal editors. The draft checklist sources will include a scoping review of existing reporting guidelines related to surgical technique, surgical technique articles from 15 top journals published in the last year, and brainstorming by the multidisciplinary development team. The final SUPER checklist will be formed after three rounds of Delphi surveys, one round of face-to-face meeting, and a month-long pilot test. The SUPER checklist will be published as open-access and be used in combination with existing reporting guidelines related to surgical techniques (e.g., IDEAL). This protocol will steer the SUPER checklist's development, allowing us to further elaborate surgical technique reporting for all surgical specialties, and enabling a more favorable experience for surgeons, nurses, medical students, residents, editors, and reviewers. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This trial is registered at the EQUATOR network on December 18th, 2020. Available at: https://www.equator-network.org/library/reporting-guidelines-under-development/reporting-guidelines-under-development-for-other-study-designs/. 2021 Gland Surgery. All rights reserved.
BACKGROUND: Standardized and transparent reporting of surgical technique is the cornerstone of effective dissemination, implementation and improvement. However, current reporting of surgical techniques is inadequate. The existing guidelines potentially applied to guide surgical technique reporting are with a minimal highlight of the surgical technique, lack requirements explaining what extent and dimensions need to be described in detail, or are unlikely to extrapolate to a wide range of surgical techniques. This study aims to formulate a rigorous protocol to develop a surgical technique reporting checklist and standards (SUPER) that defines what a clear, comprehensive and detailed surgical technique report should be contained. METHODS: This protocol is designed following the classic guidance for developing reporting guidelines recommended by the EQUATOR network. RESULTS: The development team will consist of surgeons (~80%), methodologists, and journal editors. The draft checklist sources will include a scoping review of existing reporting guidelines related to surgical technique, surgical technique articles from 15 top journals published in the last year, and brainstorming by the multidisciplinary development team. The final SUPER checklist will be formed after three rounds of Delphi surveys, one round of face-to-face meeting, and a month-long pilot test. The SUPER checklist will be published as open-access and be used in combination with existing reporting guidelines related to surgical techniques (e.g., IDEAL). This protocol will steer the SUPER checklist's development, allowing us to further elaborate surgical technique reporting for all surgical specialties, and enabling a more favorable experience for surgeons, nurses, medical students, residents, editors, and reviewers. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This trial is registered at the EQUATOR network on December 18th, 2020. Available at: https://www.equator-network.org/library/reporting-guidelines-under-development/reporting-guidelines-under-development-for-other-study-designs/. 2021 Gland Surgery. All rights reserved.
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