Department of Plastic Surgery, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Hagey Laboratory for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Int J Surg. 2018 Dec;60:279-282. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2018.10.031. Epub 2018 Oct 22.
The PROCESS guidelines were published in 2016 to provide a structure for reporting surgical case series. The PROCESS guidelines have since been widely endorsed by a number of journals. The requirement to report compliance with each item outlined in the PROCESS statement has improved the reporting transparency of case series across a number of surgical specialties. Here, we undertook a new Delphi consensus exercise to update the PROCESS guidelines.
All members of the previous Delphi group were invited to participate. In addition, researchers, editors, and reviewers who have previously published or reviewed case series with the International Journal of Surgery were invited to collaborate. An online questionnaire was sent to participants asking them to rate their agreement with amendments to each of the 29 items.
140 experts were invited to participate, 56 people agreed to participate, and 45 (80%) recipients completed the survey. There was a high level of agreement amongst the expert group, and unanimous consensus was reached in the first round. All except three proposed items were accepted, and the original guidelines were modified accordingly.
A modified and improved PROCESS checklist is presented, after a Delphi consensus exercise was completed.
PROCESS 指南于 2016 年发布，旨在为外科病例系列报告提供结构。此后，许多期刊广泛认可了 PROCESS 指南。要求报告对 PROCESS 声明中列出的每个项目的遵守情况，提高了许多外科专业的病例系列报告的透明度。在这里，我们进行了一项新的 Delphi 共识研究，以更新 PROCESS 指南。
邀请了之前 Delphi 小组的所有成员参加。此外，还邀请了曾在《国际外科学杂志》上发表或评审过病例系列的研究人员、编辑和审稿人参与合作。向参与者发送了一份在线问卷，要求他们对 29 项修订内容中的每一项进行评分。
共邀请了 140 名专家参加，56 人同意参加，45 人（80%）完成了调查。专家组达成了高度一致的意见，并在第一轮就达成了一致共识。除了三个提议的项目外，所有项目都被接受，原始指南也相应修改。
经过 Delphi 共识研究，提出了一个经过修改和改进的 PROCESS 清单。
