Table 1. Overview of the 10 assessed items of the REMARK checklist.

No.	Manuscript part	Item of REMARK checklist	Short description	Abbreviation used in article
1	Methods	2	PATient characteristics	PAT
2		6	Study DESign: patient selection & time period	DES
3		7	Clinical ENDpoints	END
4		9	Rationale for sample SIZe	SIZ
5		10	All statistical METhods	MET
6	Results	12	FLOw of patients	FLO
7		13	Distribution of DEMographic characteristics	DEM
8		14	RELationship between marker and standard variables	REL
9		15	UNIvariate analyses	UNI
10		16	MULtivariable analyses	MUL