Provides evidence-based assessments of new and emerging surgical technologies and techniques. Also includes an archive of earlier reports. From the Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures.)

Discusses the goals of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), a partnership of the cardiothoracic surgical community, cardiologists, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the first multicenter group to compare various surgical techniques in a randomized fashion. [2016]

Guide to keeping up with new information and finding the best available answers to specific questions in evidence-based surgical practice. [2012]

Practice guidelines in plastic surgery (as downloadable PDFs). From the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Collection of evidence-based resources, as PDF files, for surgical interventions, including on meta-analyses and RCTs.

Through a systematic review of the literature, this article explores the barriers to achieving a strong evidence base in surgery and offers potential solutions to overcome those barriers. With case study. [World Journal of Surgery, 2012]

The IDEAL Collaboration aims to improve the evidence base in surgery via the devlopement of evidence-based surgery recommendations.

Clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders (as downloadable PDFs). From the North American Spine Society.

Review of the tenets of implementing evidence-based researchas it pertains to spinal disorders, arguing that the RCT is not always the optimal study design for a given research question. [2014]

Argues that case-control studies should become the major study design used in surgical research when RCTs are unable to be conducted. [2016]

Complete online text in evidence-based surgical treatment. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Surgery-oreineted history of EBM slide presentation from Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the German Cochrane Centre. [2008]