Book description
Praise for this book:
Readable, relevant, and interesting...this book cuts through jargon,
recapitulates key concepts, and clarifies with current examples from
the literature...recommend[ed].--Doody's Review
Clinical Research for Surgeons
is a practical guide for understanding, planning, conducting, and
evaluating surgical research. It covers the principles of evidence-based
surgery and applies these principles to the design of suitable research
studies. The reader will come to fully understand important concepts
such as case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trial,
and reliability study. The book provides valuable discussions of the
critical appraisal of published clinical studies, allowing the reader to
learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to
measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in
patient care.Highlights:
Insights from experienced surgeons and veteran researchers
Easy-to-reference text boxes with Key Concepts, Jargon Simplified,
and Examples from the Literature
Coverage of both open and minimally-invasive surgical procedures
50 illustrations demonstrating key points
This book is a valuable reference for clinicians and residents in a
range of disciplines, including general surgery, orthopedic surgery,
plastic and reconstructive surgery, urology, neurosurgery,
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, interventional radiology, cardiac
surgery. "[Provides] practical advice...An international cast of
authors...make the book readable, relevant, and interesting...this book
cuts through jargon, recapitulates key concepts, and clarifies with
current examples from the literature...recommend[ed]."--Doody's
Review Department of Surgery, Department of Clinical Epidemiology
& Biostatistics, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada Stryker Trauma GmbH, Schoenkirchen/Kiel, Germany
