Evidence-Based Surgery (eBook)

Achilles ThomaDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic SurgeryDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI)McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Sheila Sprague,Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic SurgeryDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI)McMaster UniversityHamilton, Ontario, Canada Sophocles H. VoineskosDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic SurgeryMcMaster UniversityHamilton, Ontario, CanadaCharlie H. GoldsmithDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI)McMaster UniversityHamilton, Ontario, CanadaFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser UniversityBurnaby, British Columbia, CanadaDepartment of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine,The University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC, Canada

History of Evidence-Based Surgery (EBS).- The Steps of Practicing Evidence-Based Surgery (EBS).- Developing a Surgical Clinical Research Question: To Find the Answer in Literature Search or in Pursuing Clinical Research.- Finding the Evidence Through Searching the Literature.- Hierarchy of Evidence in Surgical Research.- Evaluating Surgical Interventions.- A Primer on Outcome Measures for Surgical Interventions.- Patient Important Outcome Measures in Surgical Care.- Surrogate Endpoints.- How to asses an Article that Deals with health-Related Quality of Life.- Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Surgical Interventions.- How to Assess a Pilot Trial in Surgery.- Non-Inferiority Randomized Controlled Trials.- Expertise-Based Randomized Controlled Trials.- The Surgeon’s Guide to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.- Prospective and Retrospective Cohort Studies.- Case-Control Studies.- Evaluating Case Series in Surgery.- Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Surgery.- Diagnostic Studies in Surgery.- How to Assess a Prognostic Study.- Decision Analysis and Surgery.- Economic Evaluations in Surgery.- Studies Reporting Harm in Surgery.- Evaluating Surveys and Questionnaires in Surgical Research.- Opinion Pieces in Surgery.- Simple Statistical Tests and P Values.- Confidence Intervals.- Power and Sample Size.- Subgroup Analyses in Surgery.- Introduction to Clinical Practice Guidelines.