{
  "abstract": "Objectives Case reports (CRs) are essential in physiotherapy, yet reporting remains heterogeneous and insufficiently standardised. The 2013 CAse REport (CARE) guideline improves transparency but lacks physiotherapy-specific detail. This study aimed to develop a consensus-driven extension of the CARE reporting guideline to support structured reporting of physiotherapy CRs, encompassing physiotherapy-specific assessments and interventions.Design An e-Delphi consensus process study following the ACcurate COnsensus Reporting Document (ACCORD) guidelines.Setting Online.Participants Forty-four international experts in physiotherapy practice, research and education, along with six core committee members.Methods Experts objectively scored items for relevance (5-point Likert scale) and provided open-ended responses for each item of the drafts. Scores and responses were analysed to facilitate iterative refinement of the Physiotherapy CAse REport (PhyCARE) reporting guidelines. Consensus was predetermined at over 70% agreement.Results Round 1 had the majority of items achieving ≥70% agreement, except two items that did not meet the threshold were revised and replaced with an alternative. Five new items addressing physiotherapy-specific reporting needs were added, and 10 items were relocated. In round 2, all 35 items across 13 domains achieved 84%–100% agreement. The nomenclature of one domain was revised to ‘Outcomes and Follow-up’. Following two e-Delphi rounds, consensus was achieved, and suggestions from online meeting, piloting led to item rephrasing, after which the PhyCARE guidelines were finalised.Conclusion The PhyCARE guidelines have the potential to provide a physiotherapy-specific extension of CARE to support structured, transparent and reproducible reporting of physiotherapy CRs.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Health Professions Education, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research Deemed to be University, Wardha, Maharashtra, India"
      ],
      "name": "Waqar M Naqvi"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Radiodiagnosis, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Wardha, Maharashtra, India"
      ],
      "name": "Gaurav V Mishra"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "The SIA College of Health Sciences College of Physiotherapy, Dombivli, Maharashtra, India"
      ],
      "name": "Summaiya Zareen Shaikh"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physiotherapy, Career College, Bhopal, India"
      ],
      "name": "Aishwarya A Pashine"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Eleuterio A Sánchez Romero"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Rehabilitation and Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Oman"
      ],
      "name": "Narasimman Swaminathan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physiotherapy School and Centre, Seth G S Medical College & KEMH, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India"
      ],
      "name": "Mariya P Jiandani"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Departamento de Fisiatría y Enfermería, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain",
        "iHealthy research group, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "Pablo Herrero"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Yale New Haven Health System, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Bohdanna Zazulak"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Chelsea E Macpherson"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Government Physiotherapy College, Raipur, India"
      ],
      "name": "Chanan Goyal"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Sydney Musculoskeletal Health and Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences (Physiotherapy), The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Joshua R Zadro"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Burke Rehabilitation, White Plains, New York, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Payal Sahni"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "GIMBE Foundation, Bologna, Italy",
        "Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Tiziano Innocenti"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Wardha, Maharashtra, India"
      ],
      "name": "Zahiruddin Quazi Syed"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy Science & Sports, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands",
        "Research Group Innovation of Human Movement Care, Knowledge Centre Healthy and Sustainable Living, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Thomas Hoogeboom"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio Hospital, Milan, Italy"
      ],
      "name": "Carlotte Kiekens"
    }
  ],
  "title": "PhyCARE reporting guidelines for physiotherapy case reports: a consensus-based development",
  "uid": "2a07a7fc-14d3-53e9-8086-c48d113e456f"
}