Preferred reporting of case series in surgery; the PROCESS guidelines

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 319-323

  Agha, Riaz A ^a   Fowler, Alexander J ^a   Rajmohan, Shivanchan ^b   Barai, Ishani ^b   Orgill, Dennis P ^c   Afifi, Raafat ^d   Alahmadi, Raha ^e   Albrecht, Joerg ^f   Alsawadi, Abdulrahman ^g   Aronson, Jeffrey K ^h   Hammad Ather, M ⁱ   Bashashati, Mohammad ^j   Basu, Somprakas ^k   Bradley, Patrick ^l   Chalkoo, Mushtaq ^m   Challacombe, Ben ⁿ   Derbyshire, Laura ^o   Farooq, Naheed ^p   Hoffman, Jerome ^q   Kadioglu, Huseyin ^r   Kasivisvanathan, Veeru ^s   Kirshtein, Boris ^t   Klappenbach, Roberto ^u   Laskin, Daniel ^v   Miguel, Diana ^w   Milburn, James ^x   Muensterer, Oliver ^y   Ngu, James ^z   Nixon, Iain ^aa   Noureldin, Ashraf ^ab   Perakath, Benjamin ^ac   Raison, Nicholas ^ad   Raveendran, Kandiah ^ae   Sullivan, Timothy ^af   Thoma, Achilleas ^ag   Thorat, Mangesh A ^ah   Petroianu, Andy ^ai   Rao, Ashwini ^aj   Valmasoni, Michele ^ak   Massarut, Samuele ^al   D'cruz, Anil ^am   Vasudevan, Baskaran ^an   Giordano, Salvatore ^ao   Healy, Donagh ^ap   Machado Aranda, David ^aq   Millham, Frederick H ^ar   Carroll, Bryan ^as   Mukherjee, Indraneilm ^at   McCulloch, Peter ^au   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^av   Rosin, David ^aw   more..

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^f Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^g IPSWICH HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^j TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^l NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^m GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

ⁿ JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^o North West Deanery ^*  (United Kingdom)

^p MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r BEZMIALEM VAKIF UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^s UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^t BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^u González Catán   (Argentina)

^v VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^x NIHR Nottingham Digestive Diseases Biomedical Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^y UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^z CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^aa EAST KENT HOSPITALS UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^ab Cumberland Royal Infirmary   (United States)

^ac NHS GRAMPIAN   (United Kingdom)

^ad KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ae Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Malaysia)

^af MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^ag MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^ah QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ai FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^aj MANIPAL COLLEGE OF DENTAL SCIENCES   (India)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^al Centro di Riferimento Oncologico Aviano Italy   (Italy)

^am TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^an MIOT Hospital   (India)

^ao TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^ap WATERFORD REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^ar NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^as EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^at FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^au UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^av Japan Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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Author keywords

Case series; Guidelines; Reporting; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSENSUS; DELPHI STUDY; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; MEDICAL RECORD; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS; SURGERY;

DELPHI TECHNIQUE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PUBLISHING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84995810323     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2016.10.025     Document Type: Article

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