Dear Caroline:
As a fellow (urological) surgeon I appreciate your interest. One important article related to surgical trials and methodological issues is this:
Need for expertise based randomised controlled trials.
Devereaux PJ, Bhandari M, Clarke M, Montori VM, Cook DJ, Yusuf S, Sackett DL, Cinà CS, Walter SD, Haynes B, Schünemann HJ, Norman GR, Guyatt GH.
BMJ. 2005 Jan 8;330(7482):88. Review. No abstract available.
The Evidence Based Surgery Working Group (based out of McMaster) has an entire series of evidence-based articles for surgeons that might interest you. Also, the American College of Surgeons runs an evidence based journal club called "Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery".
Greetings from the OR in Florida
Ph*
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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Caroline Boulind [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:39 AM
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Subject: Surgical research
Dear all,
I have been receiving emails from this list for some time now. I always enjoy the discussion and invariably learn something important and/or useful! I am a surgery trainee currently doing a research fellowship in Yeovil (UK) and I am particularly interested in methodology, especially blinding and the assessment of its success in surgical trials. I appreciate that this is not strictly an evidence based health topic, but I have seen some interesting discussions loosely around methodogy and I would be very interested to hear your views about the importance of traditionally viewed 'gold standard' evidence (eg. RCTs) in surgical research and the need for blinding in this setting, where it is often difficult to achieve (due to attitude as much as logistcs!). I have lots of references on this topic, but if you are aware of any particularly good ones you think would be of use to me that would be greatly appreciated!!
I look forward to hearing your views.
Best wishes,
Caroline
Dr. Caroline Boulind
Clinical Research Fellow
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