TY - JOUR
T1 - Reporting guidelines for surgical technique could be improved
T2 - a scoping review and a call for action
AU - Shi, Qianling
AU - Ma, Yanfang
AU - Zhang, Xianzhuo
AU - Jiao, Panpan
AU - Zhang, Kaiping
AU - Barchi, Leandro Cardoso
AU - Bedetti, Benedetta
AU - Wu, Jinlin
AU - Wei, Benjamin
AU - Ng, Calvin S.H.
AU - Toker, Alper
AU - Shen, Jianfei
AU - Fruscio, Robert
AU - Gilbert, Sebastien
AU - Petersen, Rene Horsleben
AU - Hochwald, Steven
AU - Štupnik, Tomaž
AU - Elkhayat, Hussein
AU - Scarci, Marco
AU - Levi Sandri, Giovanni Battista
AU - Abu Akar, Firas
AU - Waseda, Ryuichi
AU - Sihoe, Alan D.L.
AU - Fiorelli, Alfonso
AU - Gonzalez, Michel
AU - Davoli, Fabio
AU - Li, Grace S.
AU - Tang, Xueqin
AU - Qiu, Bin
AU - Wang, Stephen D.
AU - Chen, Yaolong
AU - Gao, Shugeng
N1 - This project is supported by the AME Reporting Guidelines Research Fund (No. 2020-1016-885) and Lanzhou University Research Unit for Evidence-Based Evaluation and Guidelines, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Fund (2021RU017). The study sponsor participated in the design, with no involvement in collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, in the writing of the article.
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© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Objectives: To identify reporting guidelines related to surgical technique and propose recommendations for areas that require improvement. Study Design and Setting: A protocol-guided scoping review was conducted. A literature search of MEDLINE, the EQUATOR Network Library, Google Scholar, and Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations was conducted to identify surgical technique reporting guidelines published up to December 31, 2021. Results: We finally included 55 surgical technique reporting guidelines, vascular surgery (n = 18, 32.7%) was the most common among the clinical specialties covered. The included guidelines generally showed a low degree of international and multidisciplinary cooperation. Few guidelines provided a detailed development process (n = 14, 25.5%), conducted a systematic literature review (n = 13, 23.6%), used the Delphi method (n = 4, 7.3%), or described post-publication strategy (n = 6, 10.9%). The vast majority guidelines focused on the reporting of intraoperative period (n = 50, 90.9%). However, of the guidelines requiring detailed descriptions of surgical technique methodology (n = 43, 78.2%), most failed to provide guidance on what constitutes an adequate description. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates significant deficiencies in the development methodology and practicality of reporting guidelines for surgical technique. A standardized reporting guideline that is developed rigorously and focuses on details of surgical technique may serve as a necessary impetus for change.
AB - Objectives: To identify reporting guidelines related to surgical technique and propose recommendations for areas that require improvement. Study Design and Setting: A protocol-guided scoping review was conducted. A literature search of MEDLINE, the EQUATOR Network Library, Google Scholar, and Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations was conducted to identify surgical technique reporting guidelines published up to December 31, 2021. Results: We finally included 55 surgical technique reporting guidelines, vascular surgery (n = 18, 32.7%) was the most common among the clinical specialties covered. The included guidelines generally showed a low degree of international and multidisciplinary cooperation. Few guidelines provided a detailed development process (n = 14, 25.5%), conducted a systematic literature review (n = 13, 23.6%), used the Delphi method (n = 4, 7.3%), or described post-publication strategy (n = 6, 10.9%). The vast majority guidelines focused on the reporting of intraoperative period (n = 50, 90.9%). However, of the guidelines requiring detailed descriptions of surgical technique methodology (n = 43, 78.2%), most failed to provide guidance on what constitutes an adequate description. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates significant deficiencies in the development methodology and practicality of reporting guidelines for surgical technique. A standardized reporting guideline that is developed rigorously and focuses on details of surgical technique may serve as a necessary impetus for change.
KW - Surgery
KW - surgical technique
KW - reporting guideline
KW - methodology
KW - quality control
KW - scoping review
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.11.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.11.012
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36574532
AN - SCOPUS:85146706600
SN - 0895-4356
VL - 155
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
ER -