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.
Research case studies
The QuinteT Recruitment Intervention (QRI)
Making impossible trials of innovative surgical procedures possible.
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)
Accurately and reliably measuring what matters to patients.
Improving early phase surgical studies
Developing methods to improve early phase studies of new surgical techniques, to inform the design and running of main trials.
Indentifying failing implants
Over 100,000 hip replacements are performed annually in the NHS. Implants can fail, particularly in younger patients, and 8,000 need to be revised annually.
Reducing deaths among patients undergoing hip and knee replacement
Identifying factors during treatment that could be changed which were associated with deaths among patients undergoing hip and knee replacement.
Treating infected joint replacements
Informing the design of a randomized trials comparing one-stage with two-stage revision surgery for hip PJI.
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EVENT: Health sector collaborates to improve policies on surgical innovation
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Working collaboratively with public groups to support safe and transparent surgical innovation
The Surgical Innovation team are one step closer to developing a list of baseline information, ...