Evidence-Based Surgery - Collection of evidence-based resources, as PDF files, for surgical interventions, including on meta-analyses and RCTs. Evidence Based Surgery: How Difficult is the Implication in Routine Practice? - 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 | Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment, Long-term follow-up - The IDEAL Collaboration aims to improve the evidence base in surgery via the devlopement of evidence-based surgery recommendations. NASS Evidence-Based Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Spine Care - Clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders (as downloadable PDFs). From the North American Spine Society. Evidence-Based Surgery: Barriers, Solutions, and the Role of Evidence Synthesis - 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] Research in spinal surgery: Evaluation and practice of evidence-based medicine - 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] A very short history of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) with a special look at surgery - Surgery-oreineted history of EBM slide presentation from Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the German Cochrane Centre. [2008] Surgical Treatment - Evidence Based and Problem Oriented - Complete online text in evidence-based surgical treatment. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network: Evidence-based surgery - 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] Study design in evidence-based surgery: What is the role of case-control studies? - Argues that case-control studies should become the major study design used in surgical research when RCTs are unable to be conducted. [2016] Evidence-based Guidelines/Practice Parameters - Practice guidelines in plastic surgery (as downloadable PDFs). From the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). ASERNIP-S: Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical - Provides evidence-based assessments of new and emerging surgical technologies and techniques.