Directory of Surgery Resources

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For sites concerning the application of EBM principles to the practice of Surgery and its subspecialties.

Resources in This Category

• A very short history of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) with a special look at surgery

  http://www.slideshare.net/Cochrane.Collaboration/troehler-symposium
  Surgery-oreineted history of EBM slide presentation from Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the German Cochrane Centre. [2008]

• ASERNIP-S: Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical

  http://www.surgeons.org/for-health-professionals/audits-and-surgical-research/asernip-s/systematic-reviews-and-technology-overviews/
  Provides evidence-based assessments of new and emerging surgical technologies and techniques.

• Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network: Evidence-based surgery

  http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(15)01831-0/fulltext
  Discusses the goals of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), a partnership of the cardiothoracic surgical community, cardiologists, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the first multicenter group to compare various surgical techniques in a randomized fashion. [2016]

• Evidence Based Surgery: How Difficult is the Implication in Routine Practice?

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3282138/
  Guide to keeping up with new information and finding the best available answers to specific questions in evidence-based surgical practice. [2012]

• Evidence-based Guidelines/Practice Parameters

  http://www.plasticsurgery.org/for-medical-professionals/quality-and-health-policy/evidence-based-medicine-guidelines.html
  Practice guidelines in plastic surgery (as downloadable PDFs). From the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

• Evidence-Based Surgery

  http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/source/ebs.html
  Collection of evidence-based resources, as PDF files, for surgical interventions, including on meta-analyses and RCTs.

• Evidence-Based Surgery: Barriers, Solutions, and the Role of Evidence Synthesis

  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-012-1597-x
  Through a systematic review of the literature, this article explores the barriers to achieving a strong evidence base in surgery and offers potential solutions to overcome those barriers. With case study. [World Journal of Surgery, 2012]

• NASS Evidence-Based Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Spine Care

  https://www.spine.org/Pages/ResearchClinicalCare/QualityImprovement/ClinicalGuidelines.aspx
  Clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders (as downloadable PDFs). From the North American Spine Society.

• Research in spinal surgery: Evaluation and practice of evidence-based medicine

  http://www.wjgnet.com/2218-5836/full/v5/i2/89.htm
  Review of the tenets of implementing evidence-based researchas it pertains to spinal disorders, arguing that the RCT is not always the optimal study design for a given research question. [2014]

• Study design in evidence-based surgery: What is the role of case-control studies?

  http://www.wjgnet.com/2222-0682/full/v6/i1/101.htm
  Argues that case-control studies should become the major study design used in surgical research when RCTs are unable to be conducted. [2016]

• Surgical Treatment - Evidence Based and Problem Oriented

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6880/
  Complete online text in evidence-based surgical treatment. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

• The IDEAL Collaboration | Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment, Long-term follow-up

  http://www.ideal-collaboration.net/
  The IDEAL Collaboration aims to improve the evidence base in surgery via the devlopement of evidence-based surgery recommendations.

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