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Publishing a Clinical Trial

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Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials

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Investigators have scientific, ethical, and personal reasons for publishing the results of their clinical trials. The conduct and analysis of the trial should be done in a transparent manner, and the outcomes/endpoints that were determined a priori must be reported, regardless of the results. The conduct and analysis of the trial should be done in a transparent manner and analyses should be done on the outcomes that were decided upon a priori. A number of resources and checklists are available for ensuring all of the necessary components of the write-up are included in the manuscript. The trial results should be published, irrespective of the findings.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Babak J. Orandi MD, MSc & Julie A. Freischlag MD

  2. Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mahmoud Malas MD, MHS

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  1. Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA

    Timothy M. Pawlik

  2. Department of Surgery,, Duke University School of Medicine,, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    Julie A. Sosa

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Orandi, B.J., Freischlag, J.A., Malas, M. (2014). Publishing a Clinical Trial. In: Pawlik, T., Sosa, J. (eds) Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4679-7_9

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