Reporting Time Horizons in Randomized Controlled Trials in Plastic Surgery

2018 ◽  
Vol 142 (6) ◽  
pp. 947e-957e ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadek Mowakket ◽  
Marta Karpinski ◽  
Lucas Gallo ◽  
Matteo Gallo ◽  
Laura Banfield ◽  
...  

In plastic and reconstructive surgery, innovation and creativity have been foremost, with science and evidence following. Unlike for a number of other specialties, the advances in plastic surgery have largely come from imagination, innovations, and trial and error, rather than from scientific trials. Somewhat more than for the rest of surgery, in plastics (where the art and craft of each particular surgeon counts immeasurably), randomized controlled trials of techniques have failed to be generated in the past, due to the difficulty of objectively assessing the success of surgery with an aesthetic-based nature. Consequently, evidence-based study of plastic surgery is a relatively new and developing field. This chapter focuses on the growing importance of evidence-based surgery in this specialty, showing that scientific trials are now being performed with increasing frequency.


2019 ◽  
Vol 144 (5) ◽  
pp. 1238-1245
Author(s):  
Brian Chin ◽  
Andrea Copeland ◽  
Lucas Gallo ◽  
Scott Wakeham ◽  
Christopher J. Coroneos ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 2080-2081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aadil A. Khan ◽  
Ananth Subbarao Murthy ◽  
Nasir Ali

2010 ◽  
Vol 126 (5) ◽  
pp. 1774-1778 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. McCarthy ◽  
Abhishek Chatterjee ◽  
T. Gregory McKelvey ◽  
Elisabeth M. G. Jantzen ◽  
Carolyn L. Kerrigan

2006 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 2081-2082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Veiga Filho ◽  
Daniela F. Viega ◽  
Lydia M. Ferreira

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