STROCSS 2021: Strengthening the reporting of cohort, cross-sectional and case-control studies in surgery

Ginimol Mathew1, Riaz Agha, Joerg Albrecht

  • 1Cook County Health, United States All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Staten Island University Hospital, Northwell Health, United States Tata Memorial Hospital, India Apollo Hospitals, India NHS Lothian, United Kingdom Hospital Simplemente Evita, Argentina Aga Khan University, Pakistan All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany Turku University Hospital, Finland IRCCS-ISMETT, Italy UPMC, United States University of Michigan, United States Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, United Kingdom Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, United States McMaster University, Canada Cairo University, Egypt Salisbury District Hospital, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom Changi General Hospital, Singapore Government Medical College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India Fatimah Hospital, Malaysia UCLA, United States HaSharon Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, United Kingdom School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London, United Kingdom Guy's Hospital, United Kingdom Cuf Descobertas Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, United Kingdom Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, India Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Ireland Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Austin Health, Australia University College London, United Kingdom Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital of Rome, Italy Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, Manipal, India BHT Clinic, Turkey Yeniyuzyil University Medical Faculty, Turkey Padova University Hospital, Italy Almana Hospital, Saudi Arabia York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, York, United Kingdom Harley Clinic, London, United Kingdom.

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