Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. The Role of Surgical Research

   • Omer Aziz, John G. Hunter

   Pages 1-8

3. Evidence-Based Surgery

   • Hutan Ashrafian, Nick Sevdalis, Thanos Athanasiou

   Pages 9-26

4. The Role of the Academic Surgeon in the Evaluation of Healthcare Assessment

   • Roger M. Greenhalgh

   Pages 27-32

5. Study Design, Statistical Inference and Literature Search in Surgical Research

   • Petros Skapinakis, Thanos Athanasiou

   Pages 33-53

6. Randomised Controlled Trials: What the Surgeon Needs to Know

   • Marcus Flather, Belinda Lees, John Pepper

   Pages 55-66

7. Monitoring Trial Effects

   • Hutan Ashrafian, Erik Mayer, Thanos Athanasiou

   Pages 67-73

8. How to Recruit Patients in Surgical Studies

   • Hutan Ashrafian, Simon Rowland, Thanos Athanasiou

   Pages 75-81

9. Diagnostic Tests and Diagnostic Accuracy in Surgery

   • Catherine M. Jones, Lord Ara Darzi, Thanos Athanasiou

   Pages 83-98

10. Research in Surgical Education: A Primer

    • Adam Dubrowski, Heather Carnahan, Richard Reznick

    Pages 99-114

11. Measurement of Surgical Performance for Delivery of a Competency-Based Training Curriculum

    • Raj Aggarwal, Lord Ara Darzi

    Pages 115-127

12. Health-Related Quality of Life and its Measurement in Surgery – Concepts and Methods

    • Jane M. Blazeby

    Pages 129-139

13. Surgical Performance Under Stress: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

    • Sonal Arora, Nick Sevdalis

    Pages 141-150

14. How can we Assess Quality of Care in Surgery?

    • Erik Mayer, Andre Chow, Lord Ara Darzi, Thanos Athanasiou

    Pages 151-164

15. Patient Satisfaction in Surgery

    • Andre Chow, Erik Mayer, Lord Ara Darzi, Thanos Athanasiou

    Pages 165-173

16. How to Measure Inequality in Health Care Delivery

    • Erik Mayer, Julian Flowers

    Pages 175-193

17. The Role of Volume–Outcome Relationship in Surgery

    • Erik Mayer, Lord Ara Darzi, Thanos Athanasiou

    Pages 195-206

18. An Introduction to Animal Research

    • James Kinross, Lord Ara Darzi

    Pages 207-228

19. The Ethics of Animal Research

    • Hutan Ashrafian, Kamran Ahmed, Thanos Athanasiou

    Pages 229-235

20. Ethical Issues in Surgical Research

    • Amy G. Lehman, Peter Angelos

    Pages 237-242

Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology represents a comprehensive reference text accessible to the surgeon embarking on an academic career. Key themes emphasize and summarize the text. Four key elements are covered, i.e. Surgical Research, Research Methodology, Practical Problems and Solutions on Research as well as Recent Developments and Future Prospects in Surgical Research and Practice.

• Competency
• Evidnece systhesis
• Surgery
• Translational Research
• cancer
• colorectal cancer
• general surgery
• health
• healthcare
• imaging
• methodology
• neurosurgery
• prevention
• quality of life
• vascular surgery

From the reviews: “This is a multiauthored, comprehensive textbook on research methodology with examples of research applications in surgery. … Research fellows, faculty, mentors, and clinicians called on to evaluate surgical research are an appropriate audience for this work from North American and Western European authors. … a valuable tool for academic surgeons.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2010)

• Dept. Biosurgery & Surgical Technology, Imperial College London St. Mary's Hospital London, London, United Kingdom

  Thanos Athanasiou, Ara Darzi

• UCSF Global Health Sciences, San Francisco L, USA

  Haile Debas

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