IDEAL News

IDEAL Meeting 2022: A message from Peter McCulloch, Chair of the IDEAL Collaboration

Oxford, 6th September 2022 This year’s IDEAL Collaboration International meeting is coming back home to Oxford, where IDEAL began with the Balliol Colloquium meetings in 2007-9.  We will be next

DECIDE-AI: New reporting guidelines developed to improve AI in healthcare settings

New reporting guidelines jointly published in Nature Medicine and the BMJ by Oxford researchers will ensure that early studies on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to treat real patients will give researchers the information needed to develop AI systems safely and effectively.  

Robot Performs Laparoscopic Surgery

Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis (Saeidi et al, 2022)

Development of standard definitions and grading for Maternal and Fetal Adverse Event Terminology

By Anna David PhD FRCOG

Director of the Institute for Women’s Health
Professor and Consultant in Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Honorary Professor of Fetal Medicine, KU Leuven

Currently working with the IDEAL Collaboration

PIPAC for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis – moving on to IDEAL Stage 2b

This month we are highlighting an oncology problem which has been very difficult to treat – peritoneal carcinomatosis.

DECIDE-AI

Developing new reporting guidelines for the early-stage clinical evaluation of decision support systems driven by artificial intelligence.

IDEAL Reporting Guidelines published in Annals of Surgery

We are delighted to announce the completion and publication of the IDEAL Reporting Guidelines.

Statement on Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review

The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review has published its report.

New journal: BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies

There has been enough cursing of the darkness engendered by inadequate evaluation of new health technology and treatments. We can do better.