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Preferred reporting of case series in surgery; the PROCESS guidelines.

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The PROCESS Guideline, consisting of an eight item checklist that will improve the reporting quality of surgical case series is presented and authors, reviewers, editors, journals, publishers and the wider surgical and scholarly community are encouraged to adopt these.
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This article is published in International Journal of Surgery.The article was published on 2016-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 349 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Guideline & Delphi method.

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The STROCSS statement: Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery

Riaz Agha, +48 more
TL;DR: The development of the STROCSS guideline (Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery), consisting of a 17-item checklist, is described and it is hoped its use will increase the transparency and reporting quality of such studies.
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A protocol for the development of the STROCSS guideline: Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery

TL;DR: The protocol for the development of the STROCSS Guideline for surgical cohort studies is provided and dissemination to interested parties and journals will be encouraged to endorse the reporting guideline.
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Impact of Obesity on Outcomes in Breast Reconstruction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review was conducted to assess the outcomes in obese women who underwent breast reconstruction following mastectomy following breast cancer, and the clinical outcomes assessed were surgical complications, medical complications, length of postoperative hospital stay, reoperation rate, and patient satisfaction.
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Systematic review of therapeutic nipple-sparing versus skin-sparing mastectomy

TL;DR: The use of nipple‐sparing mastectomy is increasing, despite unproven oncological safety in the therapeutic setting, and the aim of this systematic review was to determine the safety and efficacy of NSM compared with skin‐spares mastectomy.
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Using the Delphi technique to determine which outcomes to measure in clinical trials: recommendations for the future based on a systematic review of existing studies.

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What are the new reporting guidelines for the american board of surgery relating to MOC?

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