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As the healthcare environment changes, the need for outcomes-based treatment planning becomes even more critical. This book guides the reader through current outcomes-based research as it pertains to surgery. First, it gives a complete overview of the practice of evidence-based surgery (EBS), with topics such as treatment planning, policy issues, and ethical issues. Then it gives practical, step-by-step advice on the methodology of EBS, with chapters on study design, outcomes measures, adjustments for complications and comorbidities, cost, and data sources. Last, it publishes the results of numerous respected EBS studies.

Chapter 1. Evolution of Modern Surgery
Chapter 2. Origins of Evidence-Based Surgery
Chapter 3. Stakeholder Perspectives
Chapter 4. Framework for Evidence-Based Surgery
Chapter 5. Legal Issues
Chapter 6. Ethical Issues
Chapter 7. Health Policy Research: Information Guiding
Clinical Decision Making at the Population Level
Chapter 8. Evidence-Based Surgery in the UK

SECTION II
Chapter 9. Tools and Techniques - Study Design
Chapter 10. Clinical Outcome Measures
Chapter 11. Risk Adjustment
Chapter 12. Key Economic Outcomes Measures
Chapter 13. Critical Evaluation of Evidence
Chapter 14. Leveraging Information Technology
Chapter 15. Administrative Data and Evidence-Based Surgery
Chapter 16. Electronic Patient Records
Chapter 17. Practice Guidelines: Evidence and Intuition
Chapter 18. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
Chapter 19. Consumer Health Information

Section III Results
Chapter 20. Esophageal Surgery
Chapter 21. Gastric Surgery
Chapter 22. Colon Surgery
Chapter 23. Rectal Carcinoma
Chapter 24. Hepatobiliary Surgery
Chapter 25. Pancreatic Surgery
Chapter 26. Breast Surgery
Chapter 27. Endocrine Surgery
Chapter 28. Vascular Surgery
Chapter 29. Critical Care
Chapter 30. Trauma
Chapter 31. Burn
Chapter 32. Transplantation
Chapter 33. Minimally Invasive Surgery
Chapter 34. Thoracic Surgery
Chapter 35. Cardiac Surgery
Chapter 36. Plastic Surgery
Chapter 37. Pediatric Surgery
Chapter 38. Gynecologic Surgery
Chapter 39. Ophthalmology
Chapter 40. Orthopedic Surgery
Chapter 41. Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Chapter 42. Urology
Chapter 43. Neurosurgery
Chapter 44. Anesthesiology
Chapter 45. Surgical Pathology