Erschienen in:
01.07.2015 | Editorial
Editorial: “Pencil and Paper” Research? Network Meta-analysis and Other Study Designs That Do Not Enroll Patients
verfasst von:
Seth S. Leopold, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 7/2015
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Excerpt
Surgeons like to get their hands on things. Laparoscopy and arthroscopy—two tools that distanced the surgeon from the subject—were met with derision or worse by those who did not see their potential [
8,
11]. So it goes for new tools in surgical science. When I speak with groups of orthopaedic surgeons, I am surprised by the frequency with which they deride meta-analyses—which are not so new anymore—as “pencil-and-paper research.” Surgeons seem to prefer studies that they can get their hands around: Give us a good randomized trial comparing treatment A to treatment B any day, they say, over some sort of mathemagical approach to data pooling. …