The SCARE 2020 guideline: updating consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) guidelines
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INTRODUCTION: The SCARE Guidelines were first published in 2016 and were last updated in 2018. They provide a structure for reporting surgical case reports and are used and endorsed by authors, journal editors and reviewers, in order to increase robustness and transparency in reporting surgical cases. They must be kept up to date in order to drive forwards reporting quality. As such, we have updated these guidelines via a DELPHI consensus exercise. METHODS: The updated guidelines were produced via a DELPHI consensus exercise. Members were invited from the previous DELPHI group, as well as editorial board members and peer reviewers of the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. The expert group completed an online survey to indicate their agreement with proposed changes to the checklist items. RESULTS: A total of 54 surgical experts agreed to participate and 53 (98%) completed the survey. The responses and suggested modifications were incorporated into the new 2020 guideline. There was a high degree of agreement amongst the SCARE Group, with all modified SCARE items receiving over 70% scores 7-9. CONCLUSION: A DELPHI consensus exercise was completed and an updated and improved SCARE Checklist is now presented.
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- Agha, R. A., Franchi, T., Sohrabi, C., Mathew, G., Kerwan, A., Thoma, A., Beamish, A. J., Noureldin, A., Rao, A., Vasudevan, B., Challacombe, B., Perakath, B., Kirshtein, B., Ekser, B., Pramesh, C. S., Laskin, D. M., Machado-Aranda, D., Miguel, D., Pagano, D., Millham, F. H., Roy, G., Kadioglu, H., Nixon, I. J., Mukherjee, I., McCaul, J. A., Chi-Yong Ngu, J., Albrecht, J., Rivas, J. G., Raveendran, K., Derbyshire, L., Ather, M. H., Thorat, M. A., Valmasoni, M., Bashashati, M., Chalkoo, M., Teo, N. Z., Raison, N., Muensterer, O. J., Bradley, P. J., Goel, P., Pai, P. S., Afifi, R. Y., Rosin, R. D., Coppola, R., Klappenbach, R., Wynn, R., De Wilde, R. L., Surani, S., Giordano, S., Massarut, S., Raja, S. G., Basu, S., Enam, S. A., Manning, T. G., Cross, T., Karanth, V. K., Kasivisvanathan, V., & Mei, Z.
- Affiliations
- Barts Health NHS Trust (GB)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Lister Hospital (GB)
- McMaster University (CA)
- Swansea University (GB)
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education (IN)
- Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IN)
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Dr Gray's Hospital (GB)
- Rabin Medical Center (IL)
- Indiana University School of Medicine (US)
- Tata Memorial Hospital (IN)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Hospital CUF Descobertas (PT)
- Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IT)
- Harvard University (US)
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (IN)
- Homi Bhabha National Institute (IN)
- Staten Island University Hospital (US)
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital (GB)
- NHS Lothian (GB)
- Changi General Hospital (SG)
- Government Medical College (IN)
- Università Campus Bio-Medico (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Franchi, Thomas
- ORCID
- Agha, Riaz A.
- Franchi, Thomas
- Sohrabi, Catrin
- Mathew, Ginimol
- Kerwan, Ahmed
- Beamish, Andrew J.
- Noureldin, Ashraf
- Rao, Ashwini
- Challacombe, Ben
- Kirshtein, Boris
- Ekser, Burcin
- Pramesh, C.S.
- Laskin, Daniel M.
- Machado-Aranda, David
- Miguel, Diana
- Pagano, Duilio
- Nixon, Iain J.
- Mukherjee, Indraneil
- McCaul, James A.
- Albrecht, Joerg
- Raveendran, Kandiah
- Ather, M. Hammad
- Thorat, Mangesh A.
- Valmasoni, Michele
- Bashashati, Mohammad
- Teo, Nan Zun
- Raison, Nicholas
- Muensterer, Oliver J.
- Bradley, Patrick James
- Goel, Prabudh
- Pai, Prathamesh S.
- Afifi, Raafat Yahia
- Coppola, Roberto
- Wynn, Rolf
- Giordano, Salvatore
- Massarut, Samuele
- Raja, Shahzad G.
- Basu, Somprakas
- Enam, Syed Ather
- Manning, Todd Galvin
- Karanth, Veena KL.
- Kasivisvanathan, Veeru
- Mei, Zubing
- Venue
- International Journal of Surgery
- Published
- 2020-12
- Volume
- 84
- Pages
- 226-230
- ISSN
- 1743-9159 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9191
- OpenAlex
- W3103171760
- Cited by
- 5,594
- References
- 5
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- 2026: 62 · 2025: 111 · 2024: 262 · 2023: 1811 · 2022: 1735 · 2021: 1577 · 2020: 35
- FWCI
- 4807.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- International Journal of Surgery (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eCommons - AKU (Aga Khan University) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Queen Mary Research Online (Queen Mary University of London) (submittedVersion)
- Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (CL-2019-18-006)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Delphi Technique in Research
- Keywords
- reporting quality, reporting checklist, consensus recommendations, Delphi consensus
- MeSH terms
- Delphi Technique, Humans, Surgical Procedures, Operative, Guidelines as Topic, Consensus, Checklist, Research Report
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