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Statistics and Research Methods for Acute Care and General Surgeons

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  • it makes statistics clear with no formulas and simple explanations
  • underlines the importance of data analytics in research and in clinical activity
  • written by surgeons for surgeons

Part of the book series: Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma (HTACST)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Designing Your Research

  2. Basic Statistical Analysis

  3. Advanced Statistics

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About this book

The main aim of this book is to offer an easy tool to read a scientific article with greater awareness, to understand and evaluate it more thoroughly, and to better plan research. Today, in the era of evidence-based medicine, both research and daily patient-focused clinical practice are no longer possible without a thorough knowledge of the literature and its continuous updates.

Written by surgeons for surgeons, this practical book makes the basic concept of statistics and research methodology easy to understand and apply for young surgeons and researchers, students and residents.



 

Editors and Affiliations

  • General and Emergency Surgery Department, School of Medicine and Surgery, Milano-Bicocca University, Monza, Italy

    Marco Ceresoli

  • Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Science, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Fikri M. Abu-Zidan

  • Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Kristan L. Staudenmayer

  • General and Emergency Surgery Department, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy

    Fausto Catena

  • Department of General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

    Federico Coccolini

About the editors

Marco Ceresoli  graduated from the Milano Bicocca University and currently works as General Surgeon at the San Gerardo University Hospital in Monza. He is a member of the World Society of Emergency Surgery with the role of consultant for guidelines development and methodology. His research is focused on  emergency surgery with a special interest in development and application of evidence based medicine in daily practice and research. He serves as a member of editorial board of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery and BMC Surgery.

Fikri Abu-Zidan is an Acute Care Surgeon who graduated the from the Aleppo University (Syria); he was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in 1987.  He achieved his PhD in Trauma and Disaster Medicine from Linkoping University (Sweden) and obtained his Postgraduate Diploma of Applied Statistics from Massey University, New Zealand in 1999. His clinical experience included treating war injured patients during the Second Gulf War (1990). He has been promoting the use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) – of which he is a world leader - for more than thirty years. He is serving as the Statistics Editor of World Journal of Emergency Surgery and European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery.

Kristan Staudenmayer received her medical degree from the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical School and completed her residency in General Surgery at Parkland Hospital. Her clinical focus is on trauma, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care, and her research interests encompass trauma systems of care and vulnerable patient populations such as the elderly. She contributes nationally towards the academic mission by serving on committees for both the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Fausto Catena is Chief of General and Emergency Surgery Department, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy. He worked as Consultant General Surgeon at the Dept. of General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery of the St Orsola-Malpighi University  Hospital, Bologna, Italy. He is member of many National and International Scientific Societies, Past President of the Italian Society of Young Surgeons, General Secretary of the World Society of Emergency Surgery, General Secretary of the Italian Society of Surgical Physiopathology, Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery, past Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Digestive Pathology and Past President of ESYS.

Federico Coccolini M.D. is professor of surgery and consultant in general, emergency and trauma surgery working at the Pisa University Hospital (Pisa, Italy), one of the biggest Level I trauma centre in Italy. He teaches Emergency and Trauma Surgery at the University of Pisa. He has a deep and documented experience in managing post-traumatic and non-post-traumatic patients. His principal interests are emergency surgery, trauma surgery, advanced oncology, oncologic gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery, tissue engineering and experimental surgery, evidence-based medicine, and surgery. He is the principal investigator of multicentre studies and registers. He authored hundreds of papers and tens of book chapters. He edited a Textbook of Emergency General Surgery, several books and a book series. He served as reviewer for several journals. He is the Vice President of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) and of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery (WJES), head of the scientific committee of the EVTM Society, member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Emergency Surgery and Trauma, Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery and of the Italian Society of Surgical Physiopathology. Prof. Coccolini is a recognized world opinion leader in emergency general surgery and trauma.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Statistics and Research Methods for Acute Care and General Surgeons

  • Editors: Marco Ceresoli, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Kristan L. Staudenmayer, Fausto Catena, Federico Coccolini

  • Series Title: Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13818-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13817-1Published: 14 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13820-1Published: 14 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13818-8Published: 13 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2520-8284

  • Series E-ISSN: 2520-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 175

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Statistics, general, Biomedicine, general

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