A Consensus-Based Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies (CROSS)

Akash Sharma^#^{1

2}, Nguyen Tran Minh Duc^#^{2

3}, Tai Luu Lam Thang^{2

4}, Nguyen Hai Nam^{2

5}, Sze Jia Ng^{2

6}, Kirellos Said Abbas^{2

7}, Nguyen Tien Huy⁸, Ana Marušić⁹, Christine L Paul¹⁰, Janette Kwok¹¹, Juntra Karbwang¹², Chiara de Waure¹³, Frances J Drummond¹⁴, Yoshiyuki Kizawa¹⁵, Erik Taal¹⁶, Joeri Vermeulen^{17

18}, Gillian H M Lee¹⁹, Adam Gyedu²⁰, Kien Gia To²¹, Martin L Verra²², Évelyne M Jacqz-Aigrain²³, Wouter K G Leclercq²⁴, Simo T Salminen²⁵, Cathy Donald Sherbourne²⁶, Barbara Mintzes²⁷, Sergi Lozano²⁸, Ulrich S Tran²⁹, Mitsuaki Matsui¹², Mohammad Karamouzian^{30

31}

Affiliations

¹ University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India.
² Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan.
³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
⁴ Department of Emergency, City's Children Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
⁵ Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Crozer Chester Medical Center, Upland, PA, USA.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
⁸ Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN) and School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan. tienhuy@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.
⁹ Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia.
¹⁰ School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
¹¹ Division of Transplantation and Immunogenetics, Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
¹² School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
¹³ Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
¹⁴ Cancer Research at UCC, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
¹⁵ Department of Palliative Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
¹⁶ Department of Psychology, Health & Technology, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.
¹⁷ Department of Public Health, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁸ Department of Health Care, Knowledge Centre Brussels Integrated Care, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁹ Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
²⁰ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
²¹ Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
²² Department of Physiotherapy, Bern University Hospital, Insel Group, Bern, Switzerland.
²³ Hopital Robert-Debre AP-HP, Clinical Investigation Center, Paris, France.
²⁴ Department of Surgery, Máxima Medical Center, Veldhoven, Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
²⁵ Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
²⁶ RAND, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
²⁷ School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centrey, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
²⁸ School of Economics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
²⁹ Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³⁰ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³¹ HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 33886027
PMCID: PMC8481359
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-021-06737-1

A Consensus-Based Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies (CROSS)

Akash Sharma et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;36(10):3179-3187.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06737-1. Epub 2021 Apr 22.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India.
² Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan.
³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
⁴ Department of Emergency, City's Children Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
⁵ Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Crozer Chester Medical Center, Upland, PA, USA.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
⁸ Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN) and School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan. tienhuy@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.
⁹ Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia.
¹⁰ School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
¹¹ Division of Transplantation and Immunogenetics, Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
¹² School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
¹³ Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
¹⁴ Cancer Research at UCC, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
¹⁵ Department of Palliative Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
¹⁶ Department of Psychology, Health & Technology, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.
¹⁷ Department of Public Health, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁸ Department of Health Care, Knowledge Centre Brussels Integrated Care, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁹ Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
²⁰ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
²¹ Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
²² Department of Physiotherapy, Bern University Hospital, Insel Group, Bern, Switzerland.
²³ Hopital Robert-Debre AP-HP, Clinical Investigation Center, Paris, France.
²⁴ Department of Surgery, Máxima Medical Center, Veldhoven, Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
²⁵ Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
²⁶ RAND, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
²⁷ School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centrey, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
²⁸ School of Economics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
²⁹ Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³⁰ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³¹ HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 33886027
PMCID: PMC8481359
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-021-06737-1

No abstract available

Keywords: Checklist; Delphi technique; Surveys and Questionnaires.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

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Different stages of developing the checklist.

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