Based on the CARE reporting guidelines, this project aims to develop guidance for the reporting of case reports for the physiotherapeutic field. The group involved in the project, conducted in India, wants to help physiotherapists draft their manuscripts in a more structured way, enhancing the reproducibility of the assessment and management in clinical or community settings. Cases should report in detail physiotherapeutic interventions that use exercise, electrotherapy, manual therapy, hydrotherapy and others, and also describe in detail the assessment of range of motion, joint mobility restrictions, and functional limitations as evaluated by validated tools.
Following a literature review, the group will conduct a Delphi exercise with a panel including physiotherapists, clinical practitioners, journal editors, peer reviewers, academic editors and researchers, including authors of the original CARE reporting guideline, who they plan to invite.
The group, working with no funding, plans to start the work in November 2022 and publish the reporting guideline in 2023, as an open-access document.
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Registered: 14 September 2022
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Contact: Waqar M. Naqvi, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, and NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, India. Email: [email protected]