This cautionary article outlines new trends in how the courts view surgeon responsibility for obtaining informed consent.
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Professional Affairs
August 20, 2018
This is an instructive editorial that reminds us of the challenges women face in CT surgery. It describes how to go beyond the social online movement to achieve practical changes in training, hiring, and mentoring.
August 8, 2018
Know what reviewers and editors are looking for when evaluating your submission to their journals.
August 6, 2018
This story from the BBC reveals a report on a London, UK, hospital’s cardiac surgery department. The hospital commissioned the external review after a higher than expected mortality rate was brought to its attention.
July 27, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
July 26, 2018
Barili and colleagues discuss the importance of identifying heterogeneity in meta-analyses and the use of a random-effects or fixed-effects model to account for differences between or within studies. The authors review the assumptions and components of these models, discussing appropriate applications for each of them.
July 20, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
July 20, 2018
The authors report on their experience with three-demensional (3D) printed heart models in congenital cardiac surgery, having printed 20 3D models for preoperative simulation within the last three years. All operations were performed by a young consultant surgeon.
July 11, 2018
Papageorgiou and colleagues discuss dealing with missing data, a common challenge in clinical research.
July 6, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest