The IDEAL Collaboration is an initiative to improve the quality of research in surgery and complex interventions to build up a robust evidence base about new procedures and devices. The Collaboration has developed and continues to develop the IDEAL Framework for improving research in surgery, devices and non-pharmacological interventions. The Collaboration wishes to engage with all stakeholders involved in surgical and complex interventions research.
About usPeter McCulloch talks about how we can sometimes get carried away with the enthusiasm and commercial imperatives for new surgical technologies. Such "enthusiasm bias" needs to be tempered with a rigorous framework for the evaluation of the effects of these technologies.
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