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An Extension of the CARE Guidelines for Dry Needling Case Reports (CARE-DN)
| Reporting guideline provided for? (i.e. exactly what the authors state in the paper) |
CARE-DN provides consensus-based reporting guideline extension specifically for dry needling case reports. |
| Full bibliographic reference | Tzigkounakis G, Simati K, Georgiadis K, Kostaridou V, Battersby P, Calvo S, Herrero P, Kuzdzal A, McEvoy J, Sánchez Milá Z, Velázquez Saornil J, Voight M, Wang T, Stefanakis M. CARE-DN: An Extension of the CARE Guidelines for Dry Needling Case Reports. Cureus. 2026 Jan 18;18(1):e101789. PMID: 41555957. |
| DOI | 10.7759/cureus.101789. |
| PubMed ID | 41555957. |
| Relevant URLs (full-text if available) |
A fillable checklist can be found here. The CARE-DN Explanation and Elaboration can be found here. |
| Reporting guideline acronym | CARE-DN |
| Clinical area | Complementary and alternative medicine |
| Applies to the whole report or to individual sections of the report? | Whole report |
| Record last updated on | February 16, 2026 |