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Research outputs from the General Surgery department at the RD&E.
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What's in a smile? A review of the benefits of the clinician's smile
(BMJ, 2019-01-30)For millennia, the smile has been recognised as a powerful communication device, offering benefits to both giver and receiver with few drawbacks. A sign of compassion, empathy and friendliness, smiling can benefit healthcare ... -
Consensus views on the optimum training curriculum for advanced minimally invasive surgery: A delphi study.
(Elsevier, 2018-03-23)There has been a wide uptake in the use of Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS) globally across different surgical specialties. Whilst evidence exists for a structured training curriculum for basic laparoscopic surgery, there ... -
An intussuscepting unusual tumour of small bowel: a metastasis from renal cell carcinoma ten years after the primary
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Assessment of the IMV diameter as a surrogate marker to evaluate response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma.
(Wiley, 2017-10-12)We read with interest the paper by Ivan CV et al (1) assessing the relationship between inferior mesenteric vein diameter and evidence of extra-mural invasion (EMVI) in rectal cancer. Recent literature has focused on the ... -
Feasibility work to inform the design of a randomized clinical trial of wound dressings in elective and unplanned abdominal surgery.
(Wiley, 2016-11)Designing RCTs in surgery requires consideration of existing evidence, stakeholders' views and emerging interventions, to ensure that research questions are relevant to patients, surgeons and the health service. When there ... -
Problems and solutions in delivering global surgery in the 21st century.
(Wiley, 2016-02)Surgery has had low priority in global health planning, so the delivery of surgical care in low- and middle-income countries is often poorly resourced. A recent Lancet Commission on Global Surgery has highlighted the need ...
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