Surgical implementation gap: an interrupted time series analysis with interviews examining the impact of surgical trials on surgical practice in England

Conclusion While practice does not always change in the direction indicated by clinical trials, our results suggest that individuals, official committees and professional societies do assimilate trial evidence. Decision-makers seem to respond to the totality of evidence such that there are often plausible reasons for not adopting the evidence of any one trial in isolation.

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Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - May 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Schmidtke, K. A., Evison, F., Grove, A., Kudrna, L., Tucker, O., Metcalfe, A., Bradbury, A. W., Bhangu, A., Lilford, R. Tags: Open access, Editor's choice Original research Source Type: research