A topic guide was used to conduct the first part of the interview or focus group, and then the participants were offered the opportunity to comment on the Guidelines item by item.
Reporting guideline items were assessed by few evaluations.
Articles were assessed for the REMARK profile and other REMARK guideline items.
2 investigators independently evaluated each of the studies for adherence to the 13 individual guideline items.
No qualitative data will be collected, other than suggestions for additional guideline items.
The explanatory document will provide detailed rationales and evidence for all of the guideline items and standards.
We assessed the REMARK reporting guideline items for patient characteristics, study design, data analysis and presentation of results, including the items in the REMARK profile.
Commonly unaddressed guideline items were related to imaging methodology, determination of precision from double examinations, and also mean error of rigid-body fitting and condition number cutoff levels.
The SQUIRE development process was designed to produce consensus among a broad constituency of experts and users on both the content and format of guideline items.
The two eDelphi studies will involve participants rating the same guideline items and the procedure of the eDelphi studies will be exactly the same for each participant group.
