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- Title
Improving the evidence-base in surgery: evaluating surgical effectiveness.
- Authors
Young, Jane M; Solomon, Michael J
- Abstract
This second of two articles about clinical epidemiology reviews the generation and synthesis of evidence for the effectiveness of surgical procedures. While well-designed randomized controlled trials of surgical procedures are considered the 'gold standard' of evaluation design, they may achieve high internal validity at the expense of external validity (generalizability). Improving the -evidence-base in surgery likely will require a comprehensive approach to surgical outcomes assessment, involving both improvements in the quality and quantity of randomized controlled trials as well as recognition of the complementary role of alternate study designs.
- Publication
ANZ journal of surgery, 2003, Vol 73, Issue 7, p507
- ISSN
1445-1433
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1445-1433.2003.02662.x