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The IDEAL framework provides a structured pathway and recommendations for evaluating surgical innovations, focusing specifically on the idea and development stages.
Provides an overview of the IDEAL framework for evaluating surgical innovations, focusing on the idea and development stages.
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May guide early surgical innovation assessment; leaves open prospective validation across full IDEAL stages.
IDEAL is a framework for evaluations of surgical innovations, which follow a distinct development pathway differing from the approach developed for pharmacological interventions. Many pathway and evaluation challenges are shared by other interventional therapies, requiring individual therapist skills and customisation of treatment to the individual, partly through medical devices. This paper provides an overview of the IDEAL framework and recommendations, and focuses on the first two stages: idea and development.
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McCulloch et al. (2013) conducted a review in Surgical innovations. IDEAL framework was evaluated. The IDEAL framework provides a structured pathway and recommendations for evaluating surgical innovations, focusing specifically on the idea and development stages.
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