Selecting and measuring optimal outcomes for randomised controlled trials in surgery

Influence of reported study design characteristics on intervention effect estimates from randomised controlled trials: combined analysis of meta-epidemiological studies.

(2014) J Savović et al.   HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

Comparison of Registered and Published Primary Outcomes in Randomized Clinical Trials of Surgical Interventions

(2013) Gerjon Hannink et al.   ANNALS OF SURGERY

A systematic review of outcome reporting in colorectal cancer surgery

(2013) R. N. Whistance et al.   Colorectal Disease

How The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Is Engaging Patients And Others In Shaping Its Research Agenda

(2013) Rachael Fleurence et al.   HEALTH AFFAIRS

Reporting of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Randomized Trials

(2013) Melanie Calvert et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Surgical research collaboratives in the UK

(2013) Aneel Bhangu et al.   LANCET

SPIRIT 2013: new guidance for content of clinical trial protocols

(2013) An-Wen Chan et al.   LANCET

Caesarean section surgical techniques (CORONIS): a fractional, factorial, unmasked, randomised controlled trial

(2013)   LANCET

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with three-vessel disease and left main coronary disease: 5-year follow-up of the randomised, clinical SYNTAX trial

(2013) Friedrich W Mohr et al.   LANCET

Comparison of treatment effect sizes associated with surrogate and final patient relevant outcomes in randomised controlled trials: meta-epidemiological study

(2013) O. Ciani et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 3: randomised controlled trials in the assessment stage and evaluations in the long term study stage

(2013) J. A. Cook et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Minimal access surgery compared with medical management for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: five year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial (REFLUX)

(2013) A. M. Grant et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Reporting of Short-Term Clinical Outcomes After Esophagectomy

(2012) Natalie S. Blencowe et al.   ANNALS OF SURGERY

A concept for trial institutions focussing on randomised controlled trials in surgery

(2012) Nuh N Rahbari et al.   Trials

Surrogate endpoints in liver surgery related trials: a systematic review of the literature

(2012) Liliane Mpabanzi et al.   HPB

The need for standardised outcome reporting in colorectal surgery

(2011) R N Whistance et al.   GUT

The ClinicalTrials.gov Results Database — Update and Key Issues

(2011) Deborah A. Zarin et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

The case for a HRQL core outcome set: outcome reporting bias in oesophageal cancer studies

(2011) Rhiannon C Macefield et al.   Trials

A Prospective, Randomized, Single-Blind Comparison of Laparoscopic Versus Open Sigmoid Colectomy for Diverticulitis

(2010) Pascal Gervaz et al.   ANNALS OF SURGERY

Reporting Clinical Outcomes of Breast Reconstruction: A Systematic Review

(2010) S. Potter et al.   JNCI-Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Endovascular versus Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

(2010)   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

A pragmatic–explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers

(2009) Kevin E. Thorpe et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Surgical research: the reality and the IDEAL

(2009) The Lancet   LANCET

No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations

(2009) Peter McCulloch et al.   LANCET

Use of drains versus no drains after burr-hole evacuation of chronic subdural haematoma: a randomised controlled trial

(2009) Thomas Santarius et al.   LANCET

Challenges in evaluating surgical innovation

(2009) Patrick L Ergina et al.   LANCET

The challenges faced in the design, conduct and analysis of surgical randomised controlled trials

(2009) Jonathan A Cook   Trials

Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence of Study Publication Bias and Outcome Reporting Bias

(2008) Kerry Dwan et al.   PLoS One