The quality and quantity of randomised trials of surgical techniques is acknowledged to be
limited. According to Peter McCulloch and colleagues, however, some aspects of surgery …

Objectives: To identify factors associated with good and poor recruitment to multicentre trials.
Data sources: Part A: database of trials started in or after 1994 and were due to end before …

Introduction Worldwide, more than 20 million patients undergo groin hernia repair annually.
The many different approaches, treatment indications and a significant array of techniques …

Abstract The European Hernia Society (EHS) is proud to present the EHS Guidelines for the
Treatment of Inguinal Hernia in Adult Patients. The Guidelines contain recommendations for …

Background Supervised learning methods need annotated data in order to generate efficient
models. Annotated data, however, is a relatively scarce resource and can be expensive to …

Research on surgical interventions is associated with several methodological and practical
challenges of which few, if any, apply only to surgery. However, surgical evaluation is …

Objectives The aim of this split‐mouth randomized controlled clinical trial was to compare
the deviations of planned and placed implants placed by the assistance of a micron tracker …

Objective: To provide a multidimensional analysis of the learning curve in major
laparoscopic colonic and rectal surgery and compare outcomes between right-sided versus …

Larger surgical caseload is associated with better patient outcome for many complex
procedures. We examined the volume-outcome relationship for transsphenoidal pituitary …

Objective To determine the association between surgeons' experience and postoperative
complications in thyroid surgery. Design Prospective cross sectional multicentre study …