Background: Evidence-based medicine is the synthesis of clinical expertise, best available
clinical evidence, and patient values to provide optimal health outcomes. A scant number of …

Evidence-Based Plastic Surgery: Controlled Trials in Three P... : Annals of Plastic Surgery
Evidence-Based Plastic Surgery: Controlled Trials in Three Plastic Surgical Journals (1990 to …

Background: Increasing awareness of the importance of evidence-based medicine is
demonstrated not only by an increasing number of articles addressing it but also by a …

Levels of evidence (LOE) aid in the critical appraisal of evidence by ranking studies based
on limitation of its design. Analyzing LOE provides insight into application of evidence-based …

Clinicians rely on review articles to keep current with the rapid accumulation of medical and
surgical literature. Traditional expert reviews, however, often suffer from inherent personal …

Background: Meta-analyses are common in the plastic surgery literature, but studies
concerning their quality are lacking. The authors assessed the overall quality of meta …

Background: There has been a recent shift toward evidence-based medicine in the medical
and surgical literature. The objective of this study was to determine the level of evidence of …

Evidence-Based Plastic Surgery: Controlled Trials in Three P... : Annals of Plastic Surgery
Evidence-Based Plastic Surgery: Controlled Trials in Three Plastic Surgical Journals (1990–2005) …

Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are important research tools in modern
medicine. They serve to condense and clarify large amounts of data into resources that can …

In 2011, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) implemented a level-of-evidence (LOE)
pyramid to bring attention to evidence-based medicine and to promote quality of research …