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ReviewAesthetic surgery journal2016

Evidence-Based Plastic Surgery: Its Rise, Importance, and a Practical Guide.

Riaz A Agha, Dennis P Orgill

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Review in Aesthetic surgery journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Medical Science Liaisons in Clinical Trials for Plastic Surgery: A Scoping Review.Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India · 2026
    Review
  4. Article
  5. ChatGPT in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India · 2023
    Review
  6. Observational
  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Riaz A AghaDr Agha is a Specialty Registrar, Department of Plastic Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Doctoral Candidate, Balliol College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dr Orgill is a Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dennis P OrgillDr Agha is a Specialty Registrar, Department of Plastic Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Doctoral Candidate, Balliol College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dr Orgill is a Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a perfect storm developing in 21st century healthcare; rising complexity and patient expectations in the context of fiscal restraint. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) may be the best-kept secret in dealing with the "storm." Such an approach prefers management pathways that deliver better outcomes at less relative cost. In this article, the rise of EBM, its significance, a guide to practicing it, and its future in the field of plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery are presented.

Indexed as

Cosmetic TechniquesEvidence-Based MedicinePlastic Surgery ProceduresDiffusion of InnovationForecastingHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumans

Identifiers

PMID26746230
PMCPMC5127468

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