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      The Future of Surgical Research

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      Journal: PLoS Medicine
      Publisher: Public Library of Science

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          Surgeons seem to love publishing case series, which are of limited usefulness. How can we encourage them to do randomized clinical trials?

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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
                Journal ID (publisher-id): pmed
                Title: PLoS Medicine
                Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                ISSN (Print): 1549-1277
                ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676
                Publication date (Print): October 2004
                Publication date (Electronic): 19 October 2004
                Volume: 1
                Issue: 1
                Electronic Location Identifier: e13
                Author notes

                Robert J. Weil is the associate director for basic research at the Brain Tumor Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. E-mail: weilr@ 123456ccf.org

                Competing Interests: The author was formerly a member of the intramural research program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health.

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                DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0010013
                PMC ID: 523834
                PubMed ID: 15526041
                SO-VID: 03dc3e98-c007-4e07-bf01-ef12cdec6645
                Copyright © Copyright: © 2004 Robert J. Weil. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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                Subject: Essay
                Subject: Surgery
                Subject: Surgery
                Subject: Evidence Based Practice
                Subject: Academic Medicine
                Subject: Clinical Trials

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