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Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6, Pages 579-712 (June 2009)
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Clinical Research Symposium


A new era in surgical research: Getting back to the patient
K. Craig Kent, Annetine C. Gelijns
pages 579-581
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Randomized trials in surgery
Annetine C. Gelijns, Deborah D. Ascheim, Michael K. Parides, K. Craig Kent, Alan J. Moskowitz
pages 581-587
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The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, 29 April 2009
Y. Nancy You, David Ota, Heidi Nelson
pages 587-590
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Coordinating a National Clinical Trials Center: The German experience, 20 April 2009
Christoph M. Seiler, Markus K. Diener, Nuh Rahbari, Hartwig Bauer, Matthias Rothmund, Markus W. Büchler
pages 590-597
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Challenges in performing surgical randomized controlled trials in Japan, 29 April 2009
Mitsuru Sasako, Yukinori Kurokawa
pages 598-602
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Investigations using clinical data registries: Observational studies and risk adjustment, 20 April 2009
Bruce L. Hall, Karl Y. Bilimoria, Clifford Y. Ko
pages 602-610
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Research based on administrative data
Emily Finlayson, John D. Birkmeyer
pages 610-616
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Cost-effectiveness analysis for surgeons
Bas Groot Koerkamp, Y. Claire Wang, Myriam G.M. Hunink
pages 616-622
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The importance of determining quality of life in clinical trials, 17 April 2009
Larissa Temple, Sarah Fuzesi, Sujata Patil
pages 622-626
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The effect of the current regulatory environment on clinical research: An overview
Samuel R.G. Finlayson
pages 626-630
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Exception from informed consent requirements for emergency research
Peter K. Moore, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Moore
pages 630-635
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Evaluation of the impact of health services research on quality of care, 29 April 2009
Selwyn O. Rogers
pages 635-638
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Knowledge translation research: A review and new concepts from a surgical case study, 29 April 2009
Marko Simunovic, Nancy N. Baxter
pages 639-644
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Training of surgeons in clinical research
Edward Livingston, Robert V. Rege
pages 644-650
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Original Communications


The nature of general surgery resident performance problems
Reed G. Williams, Nicole K. Roberts, Cathy J. Schwind, Gary L. Dunnington
pages 651-658
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Commentary: The nature of general surgery resident performance problems
Debra A. DaRosa
pages 659-660
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Commentary: Kubler-Ross 5 stages in the recognition of poor surgical resident performance
Alden H. Harken
pages 661-662
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Increased CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells in tolerance induced by portal venous injection, 20 April 2009
Fan He, Zhishui Chen, Shengyuan Xu, Ming Cai, Min Wu, Hongzhou Li, Xiaoping Chen
pages 663-674
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Esophageal atresia: Prognostic classification revisited, 13 April 2009
Tatsuya Okamoto, Shigeru Takamizawa, Hiroshi Arai, Yuko Bitoh, Makoto Nakao, Akiko Yokoi, Eiji Nishijima
pages 675-681
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Images in Surgery


Idiopathic phlebosclerosis: An atypical presentation of ischemic colitis treated by laparoscopic colectomy, 18 July 2008
Kozo Yoshikawa, Toshiya Okahisa, Masako Kaji, Nobuhiro Kurita, Masanori Nishioka, Toru Ikegami, Toshiaki Sano, Junya Inoi, Tetsuji Takayama, Mitsuo Shimada
pages 682-684
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Letters to the Editors


Vocal fold palsy after surgery in elderly thyroid cancer patients with versus without comorbid diabetes, 13 April 2009
Anthony P. Polednak
pages 685-686
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Communication and systems factors might still underlie surgical complications, 06 April 2009
Ben-Tzion Karsh, Doug Wiegmann, Tosha Wetterneck, Pascale Carayon
pages 686-687
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A pathologic re-review of follicular thyroid neoplasms: The impact of changing the threshold for the diagnosis of the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma, 29 April 2009
Máire A. Duggan, Lisa Di Francesco, Pauline Alakija, Vincent Falk
pages 687-688
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Re: A pathologic re-review of follicular thyroid neoplasms: The impact of hanging the threshold for the diagnosis of the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma
Janice L. Pasieka, Moosa Khalil
pages 688-689
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A systems approach to errors, 27 April 2009
Kamal Nagpal, Amit Vats, Charles Vincent, Krishna Moorthy
pages 689-690
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Colocutaneous fistula after left inguinal hernia repair using the mesh plug technique
Harsha Jayamanne, Gethin L. Williams, Brian M. Stephenson
page 690
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Complications after mesh plug inguinal hernia repair: There is no easy bypass to inguinal hernia surgery
René G. Holzheimer
pages 690-691
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Acknowledgment of peer reviewers
page 692
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Author Index
pages 693-699
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Subject Index
pages 700-711
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