Purpose Introducing new health technologies, including medical devices, into a local setting
in a safe, effective, and transparent manner is a complex process, involving many …

Purpose – When introducing new health technologies, decision makers must integrate
research evidence with local operational management information to guide decisions about …

There is pressure for surgical departments to introduce new and innovative health technologies
in an evidence-based manner while ensuring that they are safe and effective and can be …

METHODS A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of outcome studies for
emergent appendectomy and cholecystectomy from 1966 to 2017, comparing studies prior to …

Background: Safe and effective patient preoperative skin antisepsis is recommended to
prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), reduce patient morbidity, and reduce systemic costs. …

The Surgery Strategic Clinical Network (SSCN) within Alberta Health Services (AHS) has
implemented an “Evidence Decision Support Program (EDSP)” to help identify, prioritize, …

Scoping reviews of innovations in health care characterized by large numbers and types of
publications present a unique challenge. A novel software application, Synthesis, can …

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies provide reports that summarize scientific
evidence about new technologies. But the process to put HTA reports into practice is not well …

Objectives: A primary objective of this study is to describe survival outcomes among a cohort
of women treated for locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) with respect to multimodality …

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Jane Austen's immediate public had the satisfaction of seeing two more novels from her pen …