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Clinical Trials: Handling the Data

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Clinical trials play an important role in establishing the efficacy of different surgical interventions. It is important to understand the methodological considerations that are inherent to the design, analysis, and reporting of surgical trials. This chapter reviews the essentials that surgical investigators need to know in order to handle data from clinical trials.

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  1. Utah Interventional Quality and Implementation Research (U-INQUIRE) Group, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Douglas S. Swords & Benjamin S. Brooke

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  1. Chair, Department of Surgery The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical, Columbus, OH, USA

    Timothy M. Pawlik

  2. Leon Goldman, MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Julie A. Sosa

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Swords, D.S., Brooke, B.S. (2020). Clinical Trials: Handling the Data. In: Pawlik, T., Sosa, J. (eds) Clinical Trials. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35488-6_10

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