Evidence-Based Surgery A Guide to Understanding and Interpreting the
The purpose of this book specifically is to teach surgeons (academic or community), surgical fellows and surgical residents regardless of the surgical specialty, the skills to appraise what they read in the surgical literature. Surgeons need to be a
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Evidence-Based Surgery
Achilles Thoma Sheila Sprague Sophocles H. Voineskos Charles H. Goldsmith •
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Evidence-Based Surgery A Guide to Understanding and Interpreting the Surgical Literature
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Editors Achilles Thoma Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada Sheila Sprague Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada
Charles H. Goldsmith Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada Faculty of Health Sciences Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sophocles H. Voineskos Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada
ISBN 978-3-030-05119-8 ISBN 978-3-030-05120-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05120-4
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Preface
The terms Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Evidence-Based Surgery (EBS) are ubiquitous now. With very few exceptions, however, most surgeons who use these terms do not have a good grasp of the meaning of these words. The editors of this book have the privilege of being associated with the institution (McMaster University) where the ideas and concepts of EBM and EBS originated. The British Medical Journal heralded EBM as one of the top 15 advances in health car
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