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Surgical randomized clinical trials face significant methodological limitations regarding internal and external validity, including challenges with blinding, randomization, and surgeon variability.
Standard evidence-based medicine criteria for clinical trials may not be entirely applicable to surgical research due to inherent methodological and practical limitations.
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Caution advised applying standard EBM criteria to surgical RCTs; leaves open surgery-specific validity frameworks.
Demange et al. (2011) conducted a review in Surgical interventions. Surgical interventions was evaluated. Surgical randomized clinical trials face significant methodological limitations regarding internal and external validity, including challenges with blinding, randomization, and surgeon variability.
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