de Borst Gert J, Boyle Jonathan R, Dick Florian, Kakkos Stavros K, Mani Kevin, Mills Joseph L, Björck Martin
Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Department of Vascular Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2025 Jan;69(1):9-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.009. Epub 2024 Oct 10.
Manuscripts submitted to the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVES) often contain shortcomings in baseline scientific principles and incorrectly applied methodology. Consequently, the editorial team is forced to offer post hoc repair in an attempt to support the authors to improve their manuscripts. This repair could theoretically have been prevented by providing more clear definitions and reporting standards to serve researchers when planning studies and eventually writing their manuscripts. Therefore, the general principles for EJVES publication standards are summarised here.
These publication standards did not follow a systematic approach but reflect the common opinion of the current Senior and Section Editors team. This team decided to only include recommendations regarding the most common pathologies in vascular surgery in this first edition of publication standards, namely carotid artery disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD), and chronic venous disease. In future editions, the plan is to expand the areas of research.
Presented are (1) a common set of minimum but required publication standards applicable to every report, e.g., patient characteristics, study design, treatment environment, selection criteria, core outcomes of interventions such as 30 day death and morbidity, and measures for completeness of data including outcome information, and (2) a common set of minimum publication standards for four vascular areas.
The editors of the EJVES propose universally accepted definitions and publication standards for carotid artery disease, AAA, PAOD, and chronic venous disease. This will enable the development of a convincing body of evidence to aid future clinical practice guidelines and drive clinical practice in the right direction. These first ever publication and reporting standards for EJVES aim to improve future research published in the journal.
提交至《欧洲血管与血管内外科杂志》（EJVES）的稿件在基础科学原理方面常常存在缺陷，且方法应用错误。因此，编辑团队不得不进行事后修改，试图帮助作者改进稿件。从理论上讲，通过在研究规划及最终撰写稿件时为研究人员提供更清晰的定义和报告标准，这种修改本可避免。所以，在此总结EJVES出版标准的一般原则。
这些出版标准并非遵循系统方法，而是反映了现任高级编辑和各板块编辑团队的共识。该团队决定在本版出版标准中仅纳入关于血管外科最常见病症的建议，即颈动脉疾病、腹主动脉瘤（AAA）、外周动脉闭塞性疾病（PAOD）和慢性静脉疾病。在未来版本中，计划扩大研究领域。
展示了（1）适用于每份报告的一组共同的最低但必需的出版标准，例如患者特征、研究设计、治疗环境、选择标准、干预的核心结局（如30天死亡率和发病率）以及数据完整性的衡量指标（包括结局信息），以及（2）四个血管领域的一组共同的最低出版标准。
EJVES的编辑们针对颈动脉疾病、AAA、PAOD和慢性静脉疾病提出了普遍接受的定义和出版标准。这将有助于形成有说服力的证据体系，以辅助未来的临床实践指南，并推动临床实践朝着正确方向发展。EJVES有史以来的这些首次出版和报告标准旨在改进该杂志未来发表的研究。
