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Urges rigorous assessment before adopting surgical innovations; leaves open optimal integration of RCTs, registries, and IDEAL framework.
This review focuses on how surgical methods should be assessed from a health technology perspective. The use of randomized controlled trials, population based registries, systematic literature research and the recently published IDEAL method are briefly discussed.
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