Surgical Research: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice

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Hans Troidl
Springer Science & Business Media, 1998 - 695 pagine
Surgical Research: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice, Third Edition is an excellent source book for the young surgical investigator as well as the senior investigator in surgery. It is divided into nine sections: The Surgeon as Investigator, Reading and Writing, Speaking and Listening, Design and Methods, Funding, Implementation, Analyzing Outcomes, Ethical Issues and Perspectives. The Third Edition has been updated and added to with 43 new chapters. This book is of special interest to those surgeons interested in doing research. However, it also has many very interesting chapters that would help all surgeons in approaching their practice in a more scientific way. With many of the foremost surgical investigators contributing, this book is an excellent collection of chapters covering the entire gamut of surgical research.
 

Sommario

Toward a Definition of Surgical Research
3
The Ideal of Surgical Research From the Bedside to the Laboratory and Back
9
Developing New Knowledge in Community Practice
15
Selected Historical Perspectives on the Evolution of Surgical Science
23
Surgeons Who Have Won the Nobel Prize
39
The Historical Evolution of Clinical Research
49
Reading and Writing
57
Appraising New Information
59
Systematically Reviewing Previous Work
341
Statistical Consultation in Clinical Research A TwoWay Street
357
Funding
361
Formulating an Initial Research Plan
363
Ten Tips on Preparing Research Proposais
367
Funding Research in North America The United States
373
Funding Research in North America Canada
379
Applying for Funding from the NIH A Useful Paradigm for Most Applications
383

How I Read and Assess a Scientific Paper
69
Publications Do Not Always Reflect the Real World
75
ComputerBased Literature Searches
83
Facing the Blank PageScreen
97
Getting Your Abstract on the Program
105
Writing a Scientific Paper
111
Where Should You Publish Your Paper?
119
What to Do When You Are Asked to Write a Chapter
127
Organizing Your Reference Material
131
Reviewing Books and Refereeing Scientific Papers
137
Speaking and Listening
145
The 10Minute Presentation
147
Asking and Responding to Questions
151
J AlexanderWilliams The Longer Talk
153
Slides Transparencies and Videos
159
Chairing a Session
167
Organizing Meetings Paneis Seminars and Consensus Conferences
171
Speaking at International Meetings Surviving on the Road
181
Design and Methods
189
Turning Clinical Problems into Research Studies
191
Clinical Triais
197
Multicenter Collaborative Clinical Triais
211
Selected Nonexperimental Methods An Orientation
223
Qualitative Research
235
Estimating Risk and Prognosis
243
Sensitivity Specificity and Predictive Value
257
Scaling Scoring and Staging
271
Surgical Examples of Scoring Systems
283
Developing a Measuring Instrument
293
How to Choose a Relevant Endpoint
303
Introductory Biostatistics Texts Selected Annotated Bibliography
321
A Surgeons Guide to Biostatistical Inferences How to Avoid Pitfalls
329
What a Grant Review Committee Looks For
391
Funding Research in Europe
397
Implementation
407
From Concept to Clinical Reality Implementing Pancreatic Transplantation
409
Animal Experimentation
419
The Isolated Organ in Research
435
Computer Modeis
453
The Operating Room as a Laboratory
471
Research in the Intensive Care Unit
481
Research in Surgical Education
497
The Nature of Surgical Research Phenomenology to Molecular Biology and Back
503
Analyzing Outcomes
511
Outcome Definition and Methods of Evaluation
513
Quality Improvement Applying Outcomes Analysis to Patient Care
521
Health Services Research
533
Decision Analysis CostBenefit Analysis and CostEffectiveness Analysis in Surgical Research
555
Technology Assessment
571
Ethical Issues
579
Ethical Principles in Research
581
Scientific Integrity Dealing with Scientific Fraud
605
Perspectives
613
Pentathlete The Many Roles of an Academic Surgeon
615
The Clinician with a Basic Science Laboratory
623
The Academic Surgeon as Administrator
633
Surgical Research around the World
637
International Exchange for Surgical Education
655
Survival Essentiais for the SurgeonScientist in Training
659
Future Horizons in Surgical Research
663
Index
673
About the Editors
689
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