No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9695, 2009, Pages 1105-1112

  McCulloch, Peter ^a   Altman, Douglas G ^a   Campbell, W Bruce ^b   Flum, David R ^c   Glasziou, Paul ^d   Marshall, John C ^e   Nicholl, Jon ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c Health Services   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; EDITOR; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTER; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349280608     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61116-8     Document Type: Review

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