1. What Should Surgeons Know about Evidence-based Surgery

   • Chadli Dziri
   • Abe Fingerhut

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 545 - 546

2. History and Development of Evidence-based Medicine

   • Jeffrey A. Claridge
   • Timothy C. Fabian

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 547 - 553

   

3. Why We Need Confidence Intervals

   • Douglas G. Altman

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 554 - 556

4. How To Analyze an Article

   • John D. Urschel

   OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 557 - 560

5. How to Appraise a Diagnostic Test

   • Mohit Bhandari
   • Gordon H. Guyatt

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 561 - 566

   

6. How to Appraise a Prognostic Study

   • Kenneth Mak
   • Cheng Kiong Kum

   OriginalPaper 28 April 2005 Pages: 567 - 569

7. How to Appraise the Effectiveness of Treatment

   • Mohit Bhandari
   • R. Brian Haynes

   OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 570 - 575

   

8. Number Needed to Treat (or Harm)

   • Martin R. Tramèr
   • Bernhard Walder

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 576 - 581

   

9. Role of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in Evidence-based Medicine

   • Stefan Sauerland
   • Christoph M. Seiler

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 582 - 587

   

10. Evidence-based Medicine in Surgical Decision Making

    • François Lacaine

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 588 - 591

11. How to Teach Evidence-based Surgery

    • Abe Fingerhut
    • Frédéric Borie
    • Chadli Dziri

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 592 - 595

12. Patient’s Preference and Randomization: New Paradigm of Evidence-based Clinical Research

    • Bertrand Millat
    • Frédéric Borie
    • Abe Fingerhut

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 596 - 600

    

13. Sample Size Matters: A Guide for Surgeons

    • Ulrich Guller
    • Daniel Oertli

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 601 - 605

14. Limits of Evidence-based Surgery

    • Karem Slim

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 606 - 609

    

15. The Ethics of Placebo-controlled Trials: A Comparison of Inert and Active Placebo Controls

    • Sarah J. L. Edward
    • Andrew J. Stevens
    • Teresa Swift

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 610 - 614

16. Hemodynamic and Respiratory Effects of Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Fundoplication in Children

    • Dirk Meininger
    • Christian Byhahn
    • Dorothee H. Bremerich

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 615 - 619

    

17. Invited Commentary

    • Keith. Georgeson

    Invited Commentary 21 April 2005 Pages: 620 - 620

18. Risk Factors for Sepsis and Endocarditis and Long-Term Survival Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    • Ioannis K. Toumpoulis
    • Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos
    • Daniel G. Swistel

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 621 - 627

    

19. Invited Commentary

    • Malek G. Massad

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 628 - 628

20. Parathyroid Autotransplantation during Total Thyroidectomy—Does the Number of Glands Transplanted Affect Outcome?

    • F. Fausto Palazzo
    • Mark S. Sywak
    • Leigh W. Delbridge

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 629 - 631

21. Calciphylaxis: A Rare Complication of Patients Who Required Parathyroidectomy for Advanced Renal Hyperparathyroidism

    • Susumu Matstusoka
    • Yoshihiro Tominaga
    • Akimasa Nakao

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 632 - 635

22. Laparoscopic Cardial Calibration and Gastropexy for Treatment of Patients with Reflux Esophagitis: Pathophysiological basis and Result

    • Italo Braghetto
    • Owen Korn
    • Attila Csendes

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 636 - 644

    

23. Does a Second-look Operation Improve Survival in Patients with Peritonitis due to Acute Mesenteric Ischemia? A Five-year Retrospective Experience

    • Oleg Kaminsky
    • Igal Yampolski
    • Franklin Greif

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 645 - 648

    

24. Transduodenal Resection of Peri-Ampullary Lesions

    • Elijah Dixon
    • Charles M. Vollmer Jr.
    • Paul D. Greig

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 649 - 652

25. Management of Ascites after Radical Surgery in Gastric Cancer Patients With Liver Cirrhosis and Minimal Hepatic Dysfunction

    • Keun Won Ryu
    • Jun Ho Lee
    • Jae-Moon Bae

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 653 - 656

    

26. Local Platelet Trapping as the Cause of Thrombocytopenia after Hepatic Cryotherapy

    • Georg A. Pistorius
    • Christof Alexander
    • Michael D. Menger

    OriginalPaper 14 April 2005 Pages: 657 - 660

    

27. Invited Commentary

    • Brett C. Sheppard
    • Thomas Deloughery

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 661 - 661

28. Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care

    • Donald D. Trunkey

    Book Reviews 14 April 2005 Pages: 662 - 662

29. Surgical Care at the District Hospital-7 Training Videos

    • S. William A. Gunn

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 663 - 663

30. Pocket Companion of Sabiston Textbookof Surgery: Handheld Software, 16^th Edition

    • David A. Etzioni

    Book Review 14 April 2005 Pages: 664 - 664

31. Canthus

    • S. William A. Gunn

    The Surgeon’s Word 14 April 2005 Pages: 665 - 666

32. Highlights in Surgery through Outstanding ISS/SIC Surgeons: Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky

    • Boris Savchuk

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 667 - 670

    

33. 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

    

34. Professor Dr. med. Boris Savchuk: Notes about the Author

    • Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 675 - 675

    

35. A Great Russian Surgeon: Boris Dmitrievich Savchuk (1933–2004)

    • Moshe Schein
    • Denis M. Arkhipov

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2005 Pages: 676 - 678

36. 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