PRICE 2020 guidelines for reporting case reports in Endodontics: a consensus‐based development

Abstract

Nagendrababu V, Chong BS, McCabe P, Shah PK, Priya E, Jayaraman J, Pulikkotil SJ, Setzer FC, Sunde PT, Dummer PMH. PRICE 2020 guidelines for reporting case reports in Endodontics: a consensus-based development.

Retrospective evaluation of endodontic case reports published in the International Endodontic Journal and the Journal of Endodontics for their compliance with the PRICE 2020 guidelines

“…2017, Nagendrababu et al . 2020). Whilst there are clear limitations to the methodology of case reports in determination of treatment and establishment of new tests, the observation of a single patient can add to the understanding of aetiology, pathogenesis, natural history and treatment of particularly rare diseases and to the training of potential junior investigators (Carey 2010).…”

“…2015, Nagendrababu et al . 2020). Due to the limitations and divergence of case studies, there is a high risk of bias and their reproducibility can be challenging.…”

“…Recently, the Preferred Reporting Items for Case reports in Endodontics (PRICE 2020) guidelines for case reports were published aiming to help authors to prepare accurate and complete case reports and increase the quality of reporting cases in the field of Endodontics (Nagendrababu et al . 2020). The PRICE 2020 guidelines were developed by integrating and adapting the Consensus‐based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development (CARE) guidelines for reporting of information in case reports within the field of Medicine (Gagnier et al .…”

Changes to the ‘Author Guidelines’ for Case Reports and Randomized Trials submitted to the International Endodontic Journal

“…Recently, reporting guidelines for case reports and randomized trials have been developed exclusively for Endodontics in order to improve the overall quality of manuscripts, namely. Preferred Reporting Items for Case reports in Endodontics (PRICE) 2020 (Nagendrababu et al 2020a); Preferred Reporting Items for RAndomized Trials in Endodontics (PRIRATE) 2020 (Nagendrababu et al 2020b). …”

“…The guidelines were developed using a validated consensus‐based methodology based on the Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines (Moher et al 2010); the processes followed are described in recently published papers (Nagendrababu et al 2020a, 2020b). In brief, a steering committee was formed for each guideline and an initial checklist and flow chart deemed essential for drafting case reports and randomized clinical trials specifically related to Endodontics were developed by combining and modifying the existing guidelines (e.g.…”