Beyond IDEAL: the importance of surgical innovation metrics (vol 393, pg 315, 2019)
Volume
393
Pagination
746 - 746
Publisher
Journal
LANCET
Issue
ISSN
0140-6736
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We read with interest the Health Policy by Peter McCulloch and colleagues (July 7, 2018, p 88),1 in which they concluded that IDEAL has “probably only contributed in a minor way to the improvement seen so far” in surgical research. Two fundamental limitations of IDEAL account for this...