Reporting Guidelines for the Early-Phase Clinical Evaluation of Applications Using Extended Reality: RATE-XR Qualitative Study Guideline

Johan H Vlake   ^{1, 2} , BSc ;   Denzel L Q Drop   ¹ , MD ;   Jasper Van Bommel   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Giuseppe Riva   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Brenda K Wiederhold   ⁵ , BCN, BCB, MBA, PhD ;   Pietro Cipresso   ^{3, 6} , PhD ;   Albert S Rizzo   ⁷ , PhD ;   Barbara O Rothbaum   ⁸ , PhD ;   Cristina Botella   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Lotty Hooft   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Oscar J Bienvenu   ¹² , MD, PhD ;   Christian Jung   ^{13, 14} , MD, PhD ;   Bart Geerts   ¹⁵ , MSc, MBA, MD, PhD ;   Evert-Jan Wils   ² , MD, PhD ;   Diederik Gommers   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Michel E van Genderen   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   RATE-XR Expert Group   ¹⁶

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

² Department of Intensive Care, Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland, Rotterdam, Netherlands

³ Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

⁴ Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

⁵ Virtual Reality Medical Center, San Diego, CA, United States

⁶ Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

⁷ Medical Virtual Reality Lab, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁹ Department of Basic Psychology, Clinic, and Psychobiology, University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

¹⁰ CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

¹² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

¹³ Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

¹⁴ Cardiovascular Research Institute Düsseldorf (CARID), Medical Faculty, University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

¹⁵ R&D BV, Healthplus.ai, Amsterdam, Netherlands

¹⁶ see Acknowledgments, Athens, Algeria