Use when targeting European Urology or deciding whether a urology clinical/surgical study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the high-impact clinical-and-surgical-outcomes evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, EAU/Elsevier house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
SkillScore100Maintained
Automatic
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Last verified 9/1/2026
What it changes
Passed 22 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 15 of 22 without it.
Without skill68%
With skill100%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The fit status is rated as Low.
The fit status is rated as High.
The urology tags include benign prostatic obstruction.
and 5 more in the full report
7 fixed15 passed either way0 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+32 pp
Tokens
+29%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-39%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 9/1/2026v122 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 7 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 7
Prompt
We wrote a novel surgical technique note describing a minor variation in port placement for laparoscopic adrenalectomy with a narrative description in 3 patients and no standardized complication data. Evaluate fit for European Urology.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The fit status is rated as Low.
Passed
Passed
The top risk notes the absence of standardized complication reporting.
Missed
Passed
case-12 · gemini-3.6-flash · 9/1/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md85 linessingle file
European Urology (european-urology)
Journal positioning
European Urology is the flagship journal of the European Association of Urology (EAU), publishing high-impact clinical and surgical research across the breadth of urology — uro-oncology (prostate, bladder, kidney, testis, upper-tract), functional and reconstructive urology, endourology and stone disease, andrology, transplantation, and surgical technique and outcomes. It serves academic urologists and the EAU clinical-guideline community and expects rigorous, practice-relevant work with meaningful clinical or oncologic endpoints and, for surgical studies, robust outcome and complication reporting; small single-center case series, retrospective slices without a comparator, and technique notes without outcome data are a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live European Urology author instructions.
When to trigger
The author names European Urology for a uro-oncology, functional-urology, endourology, or surgical-outcomes study and wants a fit/framing check.
A urology study must be re-framed around a high-impact clinical or oncologic question with rigorous outcome reporting for an EAU readership.
The author is choosing between European Urology, a general-medicine or oncology journal, and a lower-tier urology venue.
The author needs the journal's reporting-guideline, registration, and desk-reject expectations for clinical and surgical urology research.
Scope & topic fit
Uro-oncology: prostate, bladder, renal, upper-tract, and testicular cancer — screening, staging, systemic and surgical therapy, and survival/oncologic outcomes.
Surgical and robotic/minimally invasive technique with comparative outcome and complication data.
Functional and reconstructive urology, neuro-urology, incontinence, and benign prostatic obstruction with patient-centered endpoints.
Endourology and stone disease, including device/technology evaluation with outcomes.
Diagnostic, biomarker, and imaging (e.g., MRI/PSMA-PET pathways) studies with clinically meaningful endpoints and a reference standard.
Comparative-effectiveness, registry, and systematic-review/meta-analysis work answering a focused urology question.
Method & evidence bar
Clinical and surgical studies must be adequately powered with prespecified, patient-centered or oncologic endpoints; surgical outcomes require standardized complication reporting (e.g., Clavien-Dindo) and adequate follow-up.
The applicable reporting guideline must be followed and its checklist supplied: CONSORT for trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews, STARD for diagnostic accuracy.
Interventional trials require prospective registration; the registration number and protocol/statistical-analysis plan are expected.
Surgical comparative studies need an appropriate comparator and adjustment for confounding, case-mix, and surgeon/center learning-curve effects; single-arm series rarely suffice.
Diagnostic, biomarker, and imaging-pathway claims require an independent validation cohort and an accepted reference standard (e.g., histopathology).
Observational and registry analyses must address confounding, selection, and competing risks; causal language must match the design.
Structure & house style
EAU/Elsevier format with a structured abstract and, where required, a concise "take-home message" / patient-summary element; re-check current article types and limits on the live guide.
The introduction frames a focused urology question and its clinical importance; the discussion states the practice or guideline implication plainly and aligns with current EAU guideline terminology.
Tables/figures follow journal statistical-reporting standards; a CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA flow diagram and standardized complication tables are expected where applicable.
Supplements carry the protocol, full statistical methods, surgical-technique detail, and additional analyses.