The STROCSS statement: Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery
Riaz Agha,Mimi R. Borrelli,Martinique Vella-Baldacchino,Rachel Thavayogan,Dennis P. Orgill,Duilio Pagano,Prathamesh S. Pai,Somprakas Basu,James McCaul,Frederick H. Millham,Baskaran Vasudevan,Cláudio Rodrigues Leles,Richard David Rosin,Roberto Klappenbach,David Machado-Aranda,Benjamin Perakath,Andrew J. Beamish,Mangesh A. Thorat,M. Hammad Ather,Naheed Farooq,Daniel M. Laskin,Kandiah Raveendran,Joerg Albrecht,James Milburn,Diana Miguel,Indraneil Mukherjee,Michele Valmasoni,James Chi Yong Ngu,Boris Kirshtein,Nicholas Raison,Michael Jennings Boscoe,Maximilian J. Johnston,Jerome R. Hoffman,Mohammad Bashashati,Achilleas Thoma,Donagh Healy,Salvatore Giordano,Oliver J. Muensterer,Huseyin Kadioglu,Abdulrahman Alsawadi,Patrick J. Bradley,Iain J. Nixon,Samuele Massarut,Benjamin Challacombe,Ashraf Noureldin,Mushtaq Chalkoo,Raafat Yahia Afifi,Jeffrey K Aronson,Thomas E. Pidgeon +48 more
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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.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Surgery.The article was published on 2017-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 736 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Guideline & Checklist.read more
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