Table 1.
Reporting patient management agreement studies (inspired from GRRAS)
TITLE AND ABSTRACT | 1. Identify in title and/or abstract the clinical dilemma for which uncertainty and intra-inter physician agreement was investigated |
INTRODUCTION | 2. Name and describe the subject of interest explicitly: what disease(s), what available management options, what clinical dilemmas are being considered |
3. Specify the patients that are confronted with uncertainty | |
4. Specify the clinicians involved in making clinical decisions or recommendations | |
5. Describe what is already known about reliability/agreement and provide a rationale for the study. | |
METHODS | 6. Explain how the number of patients and clinicians was chosen. |
7. Describe how patients and clinicians were selected. | |
8. Describe the experimental setting (e.g time interval between sessions, availability of clinical information, blinding…) | |
9. State whether judgments were made independently. | |
10. Describe the statistical analyses | |
RESULTS | 11. State the actual number of raters and subjects that were included, and the number of replicated judgments which were collected. |
12. Describe the characteristics of clinicians (training, experience) and patients (any clinical data judged relevant to the study question). | |
13. Report estimates of reliability and agreement including measures of statistical uncertainty. | |
DISCUSSION | Discuss the practical relevance of results. |
AUXILIARY MATERIAL | Provide detailed results if possible (e.g online). |