Original title: The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines
A surgical case report describes one patient’s care. The SCAREThe name of a guideline that provides a structure for reporting surgical case reports. checklist gives authors a shared structure for reporting these cases. To update it, the group surveyed surgical experts about proposed changes. Fifty-three experts completed the survey, and every modified checklist itemOne point on a list of details that a report should cover. received agreement scores in the 7–9 range from more than 70% of respondents.
Imagine a group of cooks agreeing on what a recipe should include so another person can follow it. They disagree about which details matter, so they rate proposed changes and suggest edits. In this paper, the cooks are surgical experts, and the recipe is a shared checklist for writing reports about surgical cases.
Surgical case reports are easier for authors to write and for editors and reviewers to assess when they follow a shared structure. The updated checklist aims to make these reports more robust and transparent.
The abstract describes expert agreement on checklist changes, but does not report whether using the updated checklist improves the quality or transparency of published case reports. It also does not give details about the individual changes or report agreement beyond the stated scores.
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The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines — Riaz Agha, Thomas Franchi, Catrin Sohrabi et al. — International Journal of Surgery — doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.10.034
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