What Should Surgeons Know about Evidence-based Surgery Chadli DziriAbe Fingerhut OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 545 - 546
History and Development of Evidence-based Medicine Jeffrey A. ClaridgeTimothy C. Fabian OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 547 - 553
How to Appraise a Diagnostic Test Mohit BhandariGordon H. Guyatt OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 561 - 566
How to Appraise a Prognostic Study Kenneth MakCheng Kiong Kum OriginalPaper 28 April 2005 Pages: 567 - 569
How to Appraise the Effectiveness of Treatment Mohit BhandariR. Brian Haynes OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 570 - 575
Number Needed to Treat (or Harm) Martin R. TramèrBernhard Walder OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 576 - 581
Role of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in Evidence-based Medicine Stefan SauerlandChristoph M. Seiler OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 582 - 587
Evidence-based Medicine in Surgical Decision Making François Lacaine OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 588 - 591
How to Teach Evidence-based Surgery Abe FingerhutFrédéric BorieChadli Dziri OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 592 - 595
Patient’s Preference and Randomization: New Paradigm of Evidence-based Clinical Research Bertrand MillatFrédéric BorieAbe Fingerhut OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 596 - 600
Sample Size Matters: A Guide for Surgeons Ulrich GullerDaniel Oertli OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 601 - 605
The Ethics of Placebo-controlled Trials: A Comparison of Inert and Active Placebo Controls Sarah J. L. EdwardAndrew J. StevensTeresa Swift OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 610 - 614
Hemodynamic and Respiratory Effects of Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Fundoplication in Children Dirk MeiningerChristian ByhahnDorothee H. Bremerich OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 615 - 619
Risk Factors for Sepsis and Endocarditis and Long-Term Survival Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Ioannis K. ToumpoulisConstantine E. AnagnostopoulosDaniel G. Swistel OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 621 - 627
Parathyroid Autotransplantation during Total Thyroidectomy—Does the Number of Glands Transplanted Affect Outcome? F. Fausto PalazzoMark S. SywakLeigh W. Delbridge OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 629 - 631
Calciphylaxis: A Rare Complication of Patients Who Required Parathyroidectomy for Advanced Renal Hyperparathyroidism Susumu MatstusokaYoshihiro TominagaAkimasa Nakao OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 632 - 635
Laparoscopic Cardial Calibration and Gastropexy for Treatment of Patients with Reflux Esophagitis: Pathophysiological basis and Result Italo BraghettoOwen KornAttila Csendes OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 636 - 644
Does a Second-look Operation Improve Survival in Patients with Peritonitis due to Acute Mesenteric Ischemia? A Five-year Retrospective Experience Oleg KaminskyIgal YampolskiFranklin Greif OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 645 - 648
Transduodenal Resection of Peri-Ampullary Lesions Elijah DixonCharles M. Vollmer Jr.Paul D. Greig OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 649 - 652
Management of Ascites after Radical Surgery in Gastric Cancer Patients With Liver Cirrhosis and Minimal Hepatic Dysfunction Keun Won RyuJun Ho LeeJae-Moon Bae OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 653 - 656
Local Platelet Trapping as the Cause of Thrombocytopenia after Hepatic Cryotherapy Georg A. PistoriusChristof AlexanderMichael D. Menger OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 657 - 660
Surgical Care at the District Hospital-7 Training Videos S. William A. Gunn OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 663 - 663
Pocket Companion of Sabiston Textbookof Surgery: Handheld Software, 16th Edition David A. Etzioni Book Review 14 April 2005 Pages: 664 - 664
Highlights in Surgery through Outstanding ISS/SIC Surgeons: Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky Boris Savchuk OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 667 - 670
Highlights in Surgery through Outstanding ISS/SIC Surgeons: Russian Surgeons the Soviet Union: Was Contact with the ISS/SIC Feasible? Boris Savchuk OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 671 - 674
Professor Dr. med. Boris Savchuk: Notes about the Author Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 675 - 675
A Great Russian Surgeon: Boris Dmitrievich Savchuk (1933–2004) Moshe Schein Denis M. Arkhipov OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 676 - 678
World Journal of Surgery (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7514-9), published online April 21, 2005, and in this issue, pp 632–635 Springer Erratum Pages: 679 - 679