Key result
Active research networks and large collaborations in colorectal surgery enable the delivery of large, high-quality studies to provide high-level evidence for important clinical questions.
Why the study?
Surgical research has historically been under-powered, under-funded, and under-delivered, which may be addressed by forming large research collaborations.
Large research collaborations in colorectal surgery can overcome historical under-powering and under-funding to deliver robust interventional and observational studies.
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Supports clinician engagement in colorectal research networks; leaves open their direct effects on practice and outcomes.
Surgical research has been under-powered, under-funded and under-delivered for decades. A solution may be to form large research collaborations and thereby enable implementation of successful interventional trials as well as robust international observational studies with thousands of patients. There are many such research collaborations in colorectal surgery, and in this paper we have highlighted the experiences from the West Midlands Research Collaborative (WMRC), the Scandinavian Surgical Outcomes Research Group (SSORG) and the European Society of Coloproctology. With active research networks, it is possible to deliver large, high-quality studies and provide high-level evidence for solving important clinical questions in an efficient and timely manner.
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Rosenberg et al. (2021) conducted a review in Colorectal surgery. Research collaborations was evaluated. Active research networks and large collaborations in colorectal surgery enable the delivery of large, high-quality studies to provide high-level evidence for important clinical questions.
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