The SUPER reporting guideline suggested for reporting of surgical technique

Kaiping Zhang; Yanfang Ma; Jinlin Wu; Qianling Shi; Leandro Cardoso Barchi; Marco Scarci; Rene Horsleben Petersen; Calvin S H Ng; Steven Hochwald; Ryuichi Waseda; Fabio Davoli; Robert Fruscio; Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri; Michel Gonzalez; Benjamin Wei; Guillaume Piessen; Jianfei Shen; Xianzhuo Zhang; Panpan Jiao; Yulong He; Nuria M Novoa; Benedetta Bedetti; Sebastien Gilbert; Alan D L Sihoe; Alper Toker; Alfonso Fiorelli; Marcelo F Jimenez; Toni Lerut; Aung Y Oo; Grace S Li; Xueqin Tang; Yawen Lu; Hussein Elkhayat; Tomaž Štupnik; Tanel Laisaar; Firas Abu Akar; Diego Gonzalez-Rivas; Zhanhao Su; Bin Qiu; Stephen D Wang; Yaolong Chen; Shugeng Gao

doi:10.21037/hbsn-22-509

The SUPER reporting guideline suggested for reporting of surgical technique

Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2023 Aug 1;12(4):534-544. doi: 10.21037/hbsn-22-509. Epub 2023 Jan 10.

Authors

Kaiping Zhang¹, Yanfang Ma², Jinlin Wu³, Qianling Shi^{4

5}, Leandro Cardoso Barchi⁶, Marco Scarci⁷, Rene Horsleben Petersen⁸, Calvin S H Ng⁹, Steven Hochwald¹⁰, Ryuichi Waseda¹¹, Fabio Davoli¹², Robert Fruscio¹³, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri¹⁴, Michel Gonzalez¹⁵, Benjamin Wei¹⁶, Guillaume Piessen¹⁷, Jianfei Shen¹⁸, Xianzhuo Zhang¹⁹, Panpan Jiao¹⁹, Yulong He¹⁹, Nuria M Novoa²⁰, Benedetta Bedetti²¹, Sebastien Gilbert²², Alan D L Sihoe²³, Alper Toker²⁴, Alfonso Fiorelli²⁵, Marcelo F Jimenez²⁶, Toni Lerut²⁷, Aung Y Oo²⁸, Grace S Li¹, Xueqin Tang¹, Yawen Lu¹⁹, Hussein Elkhayat²⁹, Tomaž Štupnik³⁰, Tanel Laisaar^{31

32}, Firas Abu Akar³³, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas^{34

35}, Zhanhao Su³⁶, Bin Qiu³⁷, Stephen D Wang¹, Yaolong Chen^{38

39}, Shugeng Gao³⁷

Affiliations

¹ Editorial Office, AME Publishing Company, Hong Kong, China.
² School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
⁴ Evidence-based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
⁵ Lanzhou University Institute of Health Data Science, Lanzhou, China.
⁶ Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁷ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁹ The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
¹⁰ Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
¹¹ Department of General Thoracic, Breast and Pediatric Surgery, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan.
¹² Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna, S. Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital, Ravenna, Italy.
¹³ Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Milan-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy.
¹⁴ Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, S. Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy.
¹⁵ Service of Thoracic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
¹⁷ University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, UMR9020-U1277-CANTHER-Cancer Heterogeneity Plasticity and Resistance to Therapies, Lille, France.
¹⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, Linhai, China.
¹⁹ The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
²⁰ Thoracic Surgery Service, University Hospital of Salamanca, Biomedical Institute of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
²¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Helios Clinic Bonn/Rhein Sieg, Bonn, Germany.
²² Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
²³ Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
²⁴ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA.
²⁵ Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
²⁶ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain.
²⁷ Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
²⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bart Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
²⁹ Cardiothoracic Surgery, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut, Egypt.
³⁰ Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
³¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Lunc Clinic, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia.
³² Lung Clinic, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia.
³³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
³⁴ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant, Coruña University Hospital, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Unit (UCTMI), Coruña, Spain.
³⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
³⁶ Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Center, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
³⁷ Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
³⁸ Research Unit of Evidence-Based Evaluation and Guidelines, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2021RU017), School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
³⁹ World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation, Lanzhou, China.

Abstract

Background: Existing reporting guidelines pay insufficient attention to the detail and comprehensiveness reporting of surgical technique. The Surgical techniqUe rePorting chEcklist and standaRds (SUPER) aims to address this gap by defining reporting standards for surgical technique. The SUPER guideline intends to apply to articles that encompass surgical technique in any study design, surgical discipline, and stage of surgical innovation.

Methods: Following the EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network approach, 16 surgeons, journal editors, and methodologists reviewed existing reporting guidelines relating to surgical technique, reviewed papers from 15 top journals, and brainstormed to draft initial items for the SUPER. The initial items were revised through a three-round Delphi survey from 21 multidisciplinary Delphi panel experts from 13 countries and regions. The final SUPER items were formed after an online consensus meeting to resolve disagreements and a three-round wording refinement by all 16 SUPER working group members and five SUPER consultants.

Results: The SUPER reporting guideline includes 22 items that are considered essential for good and informative surgical technique reporting. The items are divided into six sections: background, rationale, and objectives (items 1 to 5); preoperative preparations and requirements (items 6 to 9); surgical technique details (items 10 to 15); postoperative considerations and tasks (items 16 to 19); summary and prospect (items 20 and 21); and other information (item 22).

Conclusions: The SUPER reporting guideline has the potential to guide detailed, comprehensive, and transparent surgical technique reporting for surgeons. It may also assist journal editors, peer reviewers, systematic reviewers, and guideline developers in the evaluation of surgical technique papers and help practitioners to better understand and reproduce surgical technique.

Trial registration: https://www.equator-network.org/library/reporting-guidelines-under-development/reporting-guidelines-under-development-for-other-study-designs/#SUPER.

Keywords: Surgical techniqUe rePorting chEcklist and standaRds (SUPER); Surgical technique; reporting checklist; reporting guideline; surgical innovation.