Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology

• The Role of Surgical Research.- Evidence-Based Surgery.- The Role of the Academic Surgeon in the Evaluation of Healthcare Assessment.- Study Design, Statistical Inference and Literature Search in Surgical Research.- Randomised Controlled Trials: What the Surgeon Needs to Know.- Monitoring Trial Effects.- How to Recruit Patients in Surgical Studies.- Diagnostic Tests and Diagnostic Accuracy in Surgery.- Research in Surgical Education: A Primer.- Measurement of Surgical Performance for Delivery of a Competency-Based Training Curriculum.- Health-Related Quality of Life and its Measurement in Surgery – Concepts and Methods.- Surgical Performance Under Stress: Conceptual and Methodological Issues.- How can we Assess Quality of Care in Surgery?.- Patient Satisfaction in Surgery.- How to Measure Inequality in Health Care Delivery.- The Role of Volume–Outcome Relationship in Surgery.- An Introduction to Animal Research.- The Ethics of Animal Research.- Ethical Issues in Surgical Research.- Principles and Methods in Qualitative Research.- Safety in Surgery.- Safety and Hazards in Surgical Research.- Fraud in Surgical Research — A Framework of Action Is Required.- A Framework Is Required to Reduce Publication Bias The Academic Surgeon's View.- Data Collection, Database Development and Quality Control: Guidance for Clinical Research Studies.- The Role of Computers and the Type of Computing Skills Required in Surgery.- Computational and Statistical Methodologies for Data Mining in Bioinformatics.- The Use of Bayesian Networks in Decision-Making.- A Bayesian Framework for Assessing New Surgical Health Technologies.- Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Surgery.- Decision Analysis.- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.- Value of Information Analysis.- Methodological Framework forEvaluation and Prevention of Publication Bias in Surgical Studies.- Graphs in Statistical Analysis.- Questionnaires, Surveys, Scales in Surgical Research: Concepts and Methodology.- How to Perform Analysis of Survival Data in Surgery.- Risk Stratification and Prediction Modelling in Surgery.- The Principles and Role of Medical Imaging in Surgery.- How to Read a Paper.- How to Evaluate the Quality of the Published Literature.- How to Write a Surgical Paper.- A Primer for Grant Applications.- Key Aspects of Grant Applications: The Surgical Viewpoint.- How to Organise an Educational Research Programme Within an Academic Surgical Unit.- How to Structure an Academic Lecture.- How to Write a Book Proposal.- How to Organise a Surgical Meeting: National and International.- Presentation Skills in Surgery.- Internet Research Resources for Surgeons.- Clinical Practice Guidelines in Surgery.- From Idea to Bedside: The Process of Surgical Invention and Innovation.- Research Governance and Research Funding in the USA: What the Academic Surgeon Needs to Know.- Research Governance in the UK: What the Academic Surgeon Needs to Know.- Research Funding, Applying for Grants and Research Budgeting in the UK: What the Academic Surgeon Needs to Know.- How to Enhance Development and Collaboration in Surgical Research.- Mentoring in Academic Surgery.- Leadership in Academic Surgery.- Using Skills from Art in Surgical Practice and Research-Surgery and Art.- Administration of the Academic Department of Surgery.- Information Transfer and Communication in Surgery: A Need for Improvement.- General Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Urology: CurrentTrends and Recent Innovations.- Cardiothoracic Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Vascular Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Breast Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Thyroid Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Orthopaedic Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Neurosurgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations.- Molecular Techniques in Surgical Research.- Molecular Carcinogenesis.

From the reviews: “This is a multiauthored, comprehensive textbook on research methodology with examples of research applications in surgery. … Research fellows, faculty, mentors, and clinicians called on to evaluate surgical research are an appropriate audience for this work from North American and Western European authors. … a valuable tool for academic surgeons.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2010)