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"The turning point in the evolution of evidence-based surgery can be attributed to Ernest Amory Codman who, in 1910, began efforts to reform clinical medicine and surgery... Codman created a case monitoring system in 1900 to record outcomes."(reference for quote: Toby A. Gordon:Chapter 14 - Evidence-Based Surgery.in Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice. 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | |||
Philadelphia) His was the first system in which the outcome of a large number of individual patients were compared according to the operation performed, and the surgeon performing the operation. | |||
=Risks of surgery= | =Risks of surgery= | ||
Revision as of 09:57, 27 February 2007
Surgery is the field of Medicine that focuses on operative treatments of the body.
Evidence-based Surgery
"The turning point in the evolution of evidence-based surgery can be attributed to Ernest Amory Codman who, in 1910, began efforts to reform clinical medicine and surgery... Codman created a case monitoring system in 1900 to record outcomes."(reference for quote: Toby A. Gordon:Chapter 14 - Evidence-Based Surgery.in Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice. 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Philadelphia) His was the first system in which the outcome of a large number of individual patients were compared according to the operation performed, and the surgeon performing the operation.