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The SCARE 2023 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines
| Reporting guideline provided for? (i.e. exactly what the authors state in the paper) |
Reporting of surgical case reports. |
| Full bibliographic reference | Sohrabi C, Mathew G, Maria N, Kerwan A, Franchi T, Agha RA. The SCARE 2023 guideline: updating consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) guidelines. Int J Surg 2023; 109:1136-1140. |
| Language | English |
| PubMed ID | 37013953 |
| Relevant URLs (full-text if available) |
The checklist can be found in Table 2 of the manuscript. |
| Reporting guideline acronym | SCARE |
| Study design | Observational studies |
| Clinical area | Surgery |
| Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report? | Whole report |
| Previous versions of this guideline / Guideline history | The SCARE Statement was originally published in 2016 and updated in 2018: 2016 Agha RA, Fowler AJ, Saeta A, Barai I, Rajmohan S, Orgill DP; SCARE Group. The SCARE Statement: Consensus-based surgical case report guidelines. Int J Surg. 2016;34:180-186. PMID: 27613565 2018 update Agha RA, Borrelli MR, Farwana R, Koshy K, Fowler A, Orgill DP; SCARE Group. The SCARE 2018 Statement: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines. Int J Surg. 2018;60:132-136. PMID: 30342279 2020 update Agha RA, Franchi T, Sohrabi C, Matthew G, Kerwan A; SCARE Group. The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines. Int J Surg. 2020;84:226-230. PMID: 33181358 |
| Record last updated on | October 2, 2026 |