Anne van Dalen

36 I Chapter 1 METHODS A comprehensive search for peer-reviewed literature published in the past 10 years (January 2007 to December 2018) was conducted using the PubMed and Embase databases and the Cochrane Library. The following search terms were included: video recording, operating room, theatre, endoscopic, medicolegal, legislation, ethics and law. Non-English and non-Dutch publications were excluded. The exact search algorithms can be found in Appendix S1 (supporting information). The articles reviewed comprised a broad range of methods, including mainly descriptive, opinion or narrative reviews. For this reason, no attempt was made to grade the levels of evidence systematically or to undertake a statistical analysis. 18 In addition, jurisprudence on the topic from North American and European jurisdictions was searched for to find examples of medicolegal cases in which video recordings were used as evidence. 19,20 A professor of health law at the University of Amsterdam collaborated in this study, to ensure correct interpretation of the legal literature.