Surgical innovation
Developing better ways to evaluate new surgical techniques and devices
Workstreams
Informed consent for new and evolving surgeries
We will be using survey, consensus and qualitative research methods to explore how to best provide information and informed consent to patients.
Early phase study design
Our plans based on our new work in this field and our surgical and methodological expertise and leadership.
Identifying active novel interventions
We will conduct a network meta-analysis (NWA), which enables the simultaneous comparison of multiple interventions in a single analysis.
Benefit and harm outcome of early phase studies
We aim to investigate whether it is possible to develop a core outcome set to use in early phase studies of trials of invasive procedures and/or devices.
Optimising outcomes after elective surgery
Our research is developing ways to support people through their joint replacement operations, so they can have the best change of a good outcome afterwards.
Improving outcomes after surgery
Improving outcomes after surgery using novel outlier prediction methods within the National Joint Registry.
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