Surgery Websites

Collection of evidence-based resources, as PDF files, for surgical interventions, including on meta-analyses and RCTs.

Guide to keeping up with new information and finding the best available answers to specific questions in evidence-based surgical practice. [2012]

The IDEAL Collaboration aims to improve the evidence base in surgery via the devlopement of evidence-based surgery recommendations.

Clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders (as downloadable PDFs). From the North American Spine Society.

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]

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]

Surgery-oreineted history of EBM slide presentation from Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the German Cochrane Centre. [2008]

Complete online text in evidence-based surgical treatment. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

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]

Argues that case-control studies should become the major study design used in surgical research when RCTs are unable to be conducted. [2016]

Practice guidelines in plastic surgery (as downloadable PDFs). From the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Provides evidence-based assessments of new and emerging surgical technologies and techniques.