Finding and appraising evidence.

Journal article

Surgeons have tended to regard evidence-based medicine with a degree of skepticism. A variety of reasons for this have been proposed,ranging from the surgical personality to the nature of the research questions that occur when studying surgical treatment. The relative paucity of randomized trials of surgical treatment has been noted by many investigators, and there has been considerable debate about whether this reflects poorly on the scientific education of the surgical community or points t...

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Authors: McCulloch, P; Badenoch, D

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Surgical clinics of North America
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-viii
• Publication date: 2006-02-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2005.11.002
• EISSN: 1558-3171
• ISSN: 0039-6109
• Language: English
• Keywords: Humans; Internet; Publication Bias; Reproducibility of Results; Information Storage and Retrieval; Evidence-Based Medicine; General Surgery