Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials

Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials is a unique and portable handbook that focuses on clinical trials. It includes new educational materials which are necessary to address not only the rapid evolution and rise of novel research methodologies in b

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Timothy M. Pawlik Julie A. Sosa Editors

Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials

Success in Academic Surgery Series Editors Herbert Chen Lillian Kao

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Timothy M. Pawlik • Julie A. Sosa Editors

Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials

Editors Timothy M. Pawlik Department of Surgery Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD USA

Julie A. Sosa Department of Surgery Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC USA

ISBN 978-1-4471-4678-0 ISBN 978-1-4471-4679-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4679-7 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht

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We dedicate this book to our families and our colleagues, who consistently give us the inspiration to seek new knowledge. We also dedicate this book to patients everywhere who participate in clinical trials in their pursuit of hope, knowledge, and discovery.

Foreword

This book is long overdue as a reference source for surgeons conducting clinical trials and outcomes research. It has been some years since such a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise has been available for those in the arena of conducting clinical studies or those aspiring to do so. As a profession, surgical practice