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Development of the Anatomical Quality Assurance (AQUA) Checklist: guidelines for reporting original anatomical studies

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(i.e. exactly what the authors state in the paper)
Reporting original anatomical studies

 

AQUA checklist     PDF / Word

 
Full bibliographic reference Tomaszewski KA, Henry BM, Ramakrishnan PK, Roy J, Vikse J, Loukas M, Tubbs RS, Walocha JA. Development of the Anatomical Quality Assurance (AQUA) Checklist: guidelines for reporting original anatomical studies. Clin Anat. 2016.
Language English
PubMed ID 27801507
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The AQUA checklist is freely available from: http://www.eba.cm.uj.edu.pl/about-aqua
Availability in additional languages The AQUA checklist is also available in French (PDF), Spanish (PDF) and Polish (PDF).
Reporting guideline website URL http://www.eba.cm.uj.edu.pl/aqua
Reporting guideline acronym AQUA
Study design Observational studies
Clinical area Pathology, Radiology, Surgery
Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report? Whole report
Additional information The AQUA reporting guideline development team have also produced consensus guidelines specifically for reporting study ethics in anatomical research within the framework of the AQUA checklist (relating to checklist items 6, 16 and 17):

Henry BM, Vikse J, Pekala P, Loukas M, Tubbs RS, Walocha JA, Jones DG, Tomaszewski KA. Consensus guidelines for the uniform reporting of study ethics in anatomical research within the framework of the anatomical quality assurance (AQUA) checklist. Clin Anat. 2018;31(4):521-524. PMID: 29532521

 
Record last updated on November 26, 2021

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