TY - JOUR
T1 - REPORT-SCS
T2 - minimum reporting standards for spinal cord stimulation studies in spinal cord injury
AU - Malik, Raza N.
AU - Samejima, Soshi
AU - Shackleton, Claire
AU - Miller, Tiev
AU - Pedrocchi, Alessandra Laura Giulia
AU - Rabchevsky, Alexander G.
AU - Moritz, Chet T.
AU - Darrow, David
AU - Field-Fote, Edelle C.
AU - Guanziroli, Eleonora
AU - Ambrosini, Emilia
AU - Molteni, Franco
AU - Gad, Parag
AU - Mushahwar, Vivian K.
AU - Sachdeva, Rahul
AU - Krassioukov, Andrei V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2024/2/1
Y1 - 2024/2/1
N2 - Objective. Electrical spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has emerged as a promising therapy for recovery of motor and autonomic dysfunctions following spinal cord injury (SCI). Despite the rise in studies using SCS for SCI complications, there are no standard guidelines for reporting SCS parameters in research publications, making it challenging to compare, interpret or reproduce reported effects across experimental studies. Approach. To develop guidelines for minimum reporting standards for SCS parameters in pre-clinical and clinical SCI research, we gathered an international panel of expert clinicians and scientists. Using a Delphi approach, we developed guideline items and surveyed the panel on their level of agreement for each item. Main results. There was strong agreement on 26 of the 29 items identified for establishing minimum reporting standards for SCS studies. The guidelines encompass three major SCS categories: hardware, configuration and current parameters, and the intervention. Significance. Standardized reporting of stimulation parameters will ensure that SCS studies can be easily analyzed, replicated, and interpreted by the scientific community, thereby expanding the SCS knowledge base and fostering transparency in reporting.
AB - Objective. Electrical spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has emerged as a promising therapy for recovery of motor and autonomic dysfunctions following spinal cord injury (SCI). Despite the rise in studies using SCS for SCI complications, there are no standard guidelines for reporting SCS parameters in research publications, making it challenging to compare, interpret or reproduce reported effects across experimental studies. Approach. To develop guidelines for minimum reporting standards for SCS parameters in pre-clinical and clinical SCI research, we gathered an international panel of expert clinicians and scientists. Using a Delphi approach, we developed guideline items and surveyed the panel on their level of agreement for each item. Main results. There was strong agreement on 26 of the 29 items identified for establishing minimum reporting standards for SCS studies. The guidelines encompass three major SCS categories: hardware, configuration and current parameters, and the intervention. Significance. Standardized reporting of stimulation parameters will ensure that SCS studies can be easily analyzed, replicated, and interpreted by the scientific community, thereby expanding the SCS knowledge base and fostering transparency in reporting.
KW - clinical practice guideline
KW - health planning guidelines
KW - mandatory reporting
KW - minimum information standards
KW - practice guideline
KW - spinal cord injury
KW - spinal cord stimulation
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U2 - 10.1088/1741-2552/ad2290
DO - 10.1088/1741-2552/ad2290
M3 - Article
C2 - 38271712
AN - SCOPUS:85184520955
SN - 1741-2560
VL - 21
JO - Journal of Neural Engineering
JF - Journal of Neural Engineering
IS - 1
M1 - 016019
ER -