| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 360 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. History of evidence-based surgery (EBS) / Achilles Thoma, Jessica Murphy, Sheila Sprague and Charles H. Goldsmith -- 2. The steps of practicing evidence-based surgery (EBS) / Achilles Thoma, Sheila Sprague, Luis H. Braga and Sophocles H. Voineskos -- 3. Developing a surgical clinical research question : to find the answer in literature search or in pursuing clinical research / Achilles Thoma, Sheila Sprague, Sophocles H. Voineskos and Jessica Murphy -- 4. Finding the evidence through searching the literature / Laura Banfield, Jo-Anne Petropoulos and Neera Bhatnagar -- 5. Hierarchy of evidence in surgical research / Gina Del Fabbro, Sofia Bzovsky, Achilles Thoma and Sheila Sprague -- 6. Evaluating surgical interventions / Aristithes G. Doumouras and Dennis Hong -- 7. A primer on outcome measures for surgical interventions / Joy MacDermid -- 8. Patient-important outcome measures in surgical care / Katherine B. Santosa, Anne Klassen and Andrea L. Pusic -- 9. Surrogate endpoints / Seper Ekhtiari, Ryan P. Coughlin, Nicole Simunovic and Olufemi R. Ayeni -- 10. How to assess an article that deals with health-related quality of life / Achilles Thoma, Jenny Santos, Margherita Cadeddu, Eric K. Duku and Charles H. Goldsmith -- 11. Randomized controlled trial comparing surgical interventions / Max Solow, Raman Mundi, Vickas Khanna and Mohit Bhandari -- 12. How to assess a pilot trial in surgery / Guowei Li, Gillian A. Lancaster and Lehana Thabane -- 13. Non-inferiority randomized controlled trials / Yaad Shergill, Atefeh Noori, Ngai Chow and Jason W. Busse -- 14. Expertise-based randomized controlled trials / Daniel Waltho, Kristen Davidge and Cagla Eskicioglu and for the Evidence-Based Surgery Working Group |
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15. The surgeon's guide to systematic review and meta-analysis / Andrea Copeland, Lucas Gallo and Noor Alolabi -- 16. Prospective and retrospective cohort studies / Ramy Behman, Lev Bubis and Paul Karanicolas -- 17. Case-control studies / Achilles Thoma, Jenny Santos, Jessica Murphy, Eric K. Duku and Charles H. Goldsmith -- 18. Evaluating case series in surgery / Christopher J. Coroneos and Brian Hyosuk Chin -- 19. Quality improvement and patient safety in surgery / Martin A. Koyle and Jessica H. Hannick -- 20. Diagnostic studies in surgery / Stuart Archibald, Jessica Murphy, Achilles Thoma and Charles H. Goldsmith -- 21. How to assess a prognostic study / Saurabh Gupta, Kevin Kim, Emilie Belley-C̥ť and Richard P. Whitlock -- 22. Decision analysis and surgery / Gloria M. Rockwell and Jessica Murphy -- 23. Economic evaluations in surgery / Achilles Thoma, Feng Xie, Jenny Santos and Charles H. Goldsmith -- 24. Studies reporting harm in surgery / Robin McLeod -- 25. Evaluating surveys and questionnaires in surgical research / Brian Hyosuk Chin and Christopher J. Coroneos -- 26. Opinion pieces in surgery / M. Torchia, D. Austin and I.L. Gitajn -- 27. Simple statistical tests and P values / Charles H. Goldsmith, Eric K. Duku, Achilles Thoma and Jessica Murphy -- 28. Confidence intervals / Jessica Bogach, Lawrence Mbuagbaw and Margherita O. Cadeddu -- 29. Power and sample size / Jessica Murphy, Eric K. Duku, Achilles Thoma and Charles H. Goldsmith -- 30. Subgroup analyses in surgery / Alexandra Hatchell and Sophocles H. Voineskos -- 31. Introduction to clinical practice guidelines / Christopher J. Coroneos, Stavros A. Antoniou, Ivan D. Florez and Melissa C. Brouwers |
| Summary |
The purpose of this book specifically is to teach surgeons (academic or community), surgical fellows and surgical residents regardless of the surgical specialty, the skills to appraise what they read in the surgical literature. Surgeons need to be able to understand what they read before applying the conclusions of a surgical article to their practice. As most surgeons do not have the extra training in health research methodology, understanding how the research was done, how to interpret the results and finally deciding to apply them to the patient level is indeed a difficult task. Chapters explain the methodological issues pertaining to the various study designs reported in the surgical literature. Most chapters begin with a clinical scenario with uncertain course of action with which most surgeons are struggling. Readers are taught how to search the literature for the best evidence that will answer the surgical problem under discussion. An identified article that seems relevant to the problem you are investigating can be appraised by addressing 3 key questions: 1). Is the study I am reading valid? 2). What are the results of this study? 3). Can I apply these results to my patients? While the primary goal of Evidence-Based Surgery is to teach surgeons how to appraise the surgical literature, an added benefit is that the concepts explained here may help research-minded surgeons produce higher quality research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2019) |
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Surgery.
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Medical literature.
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Evidence-based medicine.
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Medicine -- Surgery
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Surgery, Operative.
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Surgical Procedures, Operative
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Evidence-Based Medicine
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General Surgery
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surgery (health care function)
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General surgery.
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Medical -- Surgery -- General.
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Surgery, Operative
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Evidence-based medicine
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Medical literature
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Surgery
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thoma, Achilleas, editor.
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Sprague, Sheila, editor.
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Voineskos, Sophocles H., editor.
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Goldsmith, Charles H., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030051211 |
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3030051218 |
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9783030051204 |
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303005120X |
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