What is SUPER?

SUPER stands for Surgical techniqUe rePorting chEcklist and standaRds. There is a deficiency in the current reporting of surgical technique, which makes objective evaluation and reproduction challenging.

We hope that through SUPER, the level of detail, completeness, transparency, and quality of surgical technique reporting will be improved, and that the surgical techniques will thus become more reproducible.

Who should use SUPER?

All clinical surgeons and team members involved in surgery, including surgical nurses, anesthesiologists, etc., are all potential users of SUPER.

Progress

• June 12, 2023

  The SUPER Explanation & Elaboration document was published online in the Gland Surgery.

• April-May, 2023

  Two more papers commenting on the SUPER reporting guideline were respectively published in the Annals of Translational Medicine and Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition:
  The need for standardizing the reporting guidelines for surgical procedures: can SUPER be a universal guideline for the evaluation of surgical procedures?
  More accurate reporting of surgical techniques would be SUPER

• March 14, 2023

  The SUPER checklist is available in English, Chinese, and Spanish.

• February 21, 2023

  The SUPER reporting guideline was commented on by the surgical expert Gaetano Ciancio: The importance of utilizing the SUPER reporting guideline for surgical technique.

• January 19, 2023

  The SUPER reporting guideline was included in the EQUATOR Network.

• December 31, 2022

  The SUPER checklist was accepted for publication in the Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition: The SUPER reporting guideline suggested for reporting of surgical technique.

• November 22, 2022

  The scoping review was accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology: Reporting guidelines for surgical technique could be improved: A scoping review and a call for action.

• July 18, 2022

  The preprint of the scoping review was published at SSRN.

• July 1, 2022

  The preprint of the SUPER checklist was published at SSRN.

• July 14, 2021

  The SUPER protocol was published.

• June 23, 2021

  The scoping review protocol was published.

• December 18, 2020

  The SUPER was officially registered at the EQUATOR Network.

• December 11, 2020

  The eighth secretary panel meeting was held.

• November 27, 2020

  The seventh secretary panel meeting was held.

• November 20, 2020

  The sixth secretary panel meeting was held.

• November 9, 2020

  The fifth secretary panel meeting was held.

• November 1, 2020

  The fourth secretary panel meeting was held. The project was officially named, SUPER (Surgical techniqUe rePorting chEcklist and standaRds).

• October 30, 2020

  The scoping review protocol draft was completed.

• October 23, 2020

  The third secretary panel meeting was held.

• October 14, 2020

  The second secretary panel meeting was held.

• August 26, 2020

  The first secretary panel meeting was held and the project team was agreed upon.

• August 18, 2020

  The project was launched with the initial name, STRC (surgical technique reporting checklist).

Contact us

We warmly welcome any suggestions, discussions, and inquiries concerning SUPER. Please contact: editor@thesuper.org