Kaiping Zhang, Yanfang Ma, Jinlin Wu, Qianling Shi, Leandro Cardoso Barchi, Marco Scarci, Rene Horsleben Petersen, Calvin S H Ng, Steven Hochwald, Ryuichi Waseda, Fabio Davoli, Robert Fruscio, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, Michel Gonzalez, Benjamin Wei, Guillaume Piessen, Jianfei Shen, Xianzhuo Zhang, Panpan Jiao, Yulong He, Nuria M Novoa, Benedetta Bedetti, Sebastien Gilbert, Alan D L Sihoe, Alper Toker, Alfonso Fiorelli, Marcelo F Jimenez, Toni Lerut, Aung Y Oo, Grace S Li, Xueqin Tang, Yawen Lu, Hussein Elkhayat, Tomaž Štupnik, Tanel Laisaar, Firas Abu Akar, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Zhanhao Su, Bin Qiu, Stephen D Wang, Yaolong Chen, Shugeng Gao
BACKGROUND: Existing reporting guidelines pay insufficient attention to the detail and comprehensiveness reporting of surgical technique. The Surgical techniqUe rePorting chEcklist and standaRds (SUPER) aims to address this gap by defining reporting standards for surgical technique. The SUPER guideline intends to apply to articles that encompass surgical technique in any study design, surgical discipline, and stage of surgical innovation. METHODS: Following the EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network approach, 16 surgeons, journal editors, and methodologists reviewed existing reporting guidelines relating to surgical technique, reviewed papers from 15 top journals, and brainstormed to draft initial items for the SUPER...
August 1, 2023: Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition