Department of Radiation Oncology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Vet Radiol Ultrasound. 2024 Sep;65(5):547-555. doi: 10.1111/vru.13396. Epub 2024 Jun 20.
Evidence-based medicine drives patient care decision-making; thus, accurate and complete reporting in scientific publications is paramount. A checklist for complete reporting of veterinary radiation therapy was proposed in 2012 using the recommendations of the International Commission of Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU). The purpose of this study is to review the 2012 checklist and propose updates based on changes in technology. Significant technology advancements have gained traction in veterinary medicine, including intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT), both of which have related modality-specific ICRU reporting recommendations. The 2012 checklist and proposed 2024 checklist are then used to assess the completeness of reporting in veterinary radiation oncology publications between 2015 and 2022, of which one hundred and eight publications met the inclusion criteria. Prior to the publication of the 2012 checklist (2005-2010), only nine checklist items showed a good level of completeness in reporting, and from 2015 to 2022, this increased to 16 items. Encouraging and/or requiring the use of reporting checklists at the time of manuscript submission may be responsible for this improvement in reporting. Using the 2024 checklist, which is more relevant to publications discussing IMRT and SRT treatments, only 14 of the analyzed checklist items (34%) show a good level of completeness in reporting, suggesting there is a need for updated guidelines to capture the nuances of advanced techniques. This study proposes a 2024 checklist that can be used as a guideline for future reporting of radiation therapy in veterinary medicine.
循证医学推动了患者护理决策；因此，科学出版物中的准确和完整报告至关重要。2012 年，使用国际辐射单位和测量委员会（ICRU）的建议，提出了一份兽医放射治疗完整报告的清单。本研究的目的是审查 2012 年的清单，并根据技术的变化提出更新建议。兽医医学中的重大技术进步已经引起了关注，包括强度调制放射治疗（IMRT）和立体定向放射治疗（SRT），这两种技术都有相关的模式特定的 ICRU 报告建议。然后，使用 2012 年清单和拟议的 2024 年清单，评估 2015 年至 2022 年期间兽医放射肿瘤学出版物中报告的完整性，其中有 108 篇出版物符合纳入标准。在 2012 年清单发布之前（2005-2010 年），只有 9 个清单项目显示出良好的报告完整性水平，而从 2015 年到 2022 年，这一数字增加到了 16 个。在提交稿件时鼓励和/或要求使用报告清单可能是报告改进的原因。使用与讨论 IMRT 和 SRT 治疗更相关的 2024 年清单，只有 14 个分析的清单项目（34%）显示出良好的报告完整性水平，这表明需要更新指南以捕捉先进技术的细微差别。本研究提出了 2024 年清单，可作为兽医放射治疗未来报告的指南。
