TY - JOUR

T1 - The SUPER reporting guideline suggested for reporting of surgical technique

T2 - explanation and elaboration

AU - Zhang, Kaiping

AU - Wu, Jinlin

AU - Su, Zhanhao

AU - Ma, Yanfang

AU - Shi, Qianling

AU - Barchi, Leandro Cardoso

AU - Laisaar, Tanel

AU - Ng, Calvin S. H.

AU - Gilbert, Sebastien

AU - Zhang, Xianzhuo

AU - Štupnik, Tomaž

AU - Lerut, Toni

AU - Jiao, Panpan

AU - Elkhayat, Hussein

AU - Novoa, Nuria M.

AU - Fruscio, Robert

AU - Waseda, Ryuichi

AU - Petersen, Rene Horsleben

AU - Fiorelli, Alfonso

AU - Sihoe, Alan D. L.

AU - Gonzalez-Rivas, Diego

AU - Scarci, Marco

AU - Jimenez, Marcelo F.

AU - Li, Grace S.

AU - Tang, Xueqin

AU - Wang, Stephen D.

AU - Chen, Yaolong

N1 - Funding Information: Guidelines Research Fund (No. 2020-1016-885) and Lanzhou University Research Unit for Evidence-Based Evaluation and Guidelines, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Fund (No. 2021RU017). Funding Information: Conflicts of interest disclosures have the potential to reduce bias, yet the current disclosure of conflicts of interest is worrying (65,66). Every author should disclose their conflicts of interest, both financial and non-financial, as defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (67) and as required by each journal. For example, if a new device is introduced in a surgical technique, the relationship between the manufacturer and the authors should be disclosed (Appendix 2, Example 66). Another example is that if the project is supported by a funder, the Funding Information: Funding: This project was supported by the AME Reporting Publisher Copyright: © Gland Surgery. All rights reserved.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Background: Surgical technique plays an essential role in achieving good health outcomes. However, the quality of surgical technique reporting remains heterogeneous. Reporting checklists could help authors to describe the surgical technique more transparently and effectively, as well as to assist reviewers and editors evaluate it more informatively, and promote readers to better understand the technique. We previously developed SUPER (surgical technique reporting checklist and standards) to assist authors in reporting their research that contains surgical technique more transparently. However, further explanation and elaboration of each item are needed for better understanding and reporting practice. Methods: We searched surgical literature in PubMed, Google Scholar and journal websites published up to January 2023 to find multidiscipline examples in various article types for each SUPER item. Results: We explain the 22 items of the SUPER and provide rationales item by item alongside. We provide 69 examples from 53 literature that present optimal reporting of the 22 items. Article types of examples include pure surgical technique, and case reports, observational studies and clinical trials that contain surgical technique. Examples are multidisciplinary, including general surgery, orthopaedical surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, neurological surgery, oncogenic surgery, and emergency surgery etc. Conclusions: Along with SUPER article, this explanation and elaboration file can promote deeper understanding on the SUPER items. We hope that the article could further guide surgeons and researchers in reporting, and assist editors and peer reviewers in reviewing manuscripts related to surgical technique.

AB - Background: Surgical technique plays an essential role in achieving good health outcomes. However, the quality of surgical technique reporting remains heterogeneous. Reporting checklists could help authors to describe the surgical technique more transparently and effectively, as well as to assist reviewers and editors evaluate it more informatively, and promote readers to better understand the technique. We previously developed SUPER (surgical technique reporting checklist and standards) to assist authors in reporting their research that contains surgical technique more transparently. However, further explanation and elaboration of each item are needed for better understanding and reporting practice. Methods: We searched surgical literature in PubMed, Google Scholar and journal websites published up to January 2023 to find multidiscipline examples in various article types for each SUPER item. Results: We explain the 22 items of the SUPER and provide rationales item by item alongside. We provide 69 examples from 53 literature that present optimal reporting of the 22 items. Article types of examples include pure surgical technique, and case reports, observational studies and clinical trials that contain surgical technique. Examples are multidisciplinary, including general surgery, orthopaedical surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, neurological surgery, oncogenic surgery, and emergency surgery etc. Conclusions: Along with SUPER article, this explanation and elaboration file can promote deeper understanding on the SUPER items. We hope that the article could further guide surgeons and researchers in reporting, and assist editors and peer reviewers in reviewing manuscripts related to surgical technique.

KW - guideline

KW - reporting checklist

KW - SUPER

KW - surgery

KW - Surgical technique

U2 - 10.21037/gs-23-76

DO - 10.21037/gs-23-76

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 37441012

AN - SCOPUS:85164615308

VL - 12

SP - 749

EP - 766

JO - Gland Surgery

JF - Gland Surgery

SN - 2227-684X

IS - 6

ER -