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Index 

Introduction

 Basic Definitions:

  • Surgical clinical research
  • Surgical Innovation

 Relevance for Surgeons

  • Higher quality research/Evidence based surgery
  • Increased autonomy and protection human participants
  • Reduced liability

Research Ethics in Surgical Clinical Research

 Introduction
 Origins & Background
 Human Subject Research

  • Guiding Principles
    • Respect for persons
    • Beneficence
    • Justice
    • Equipoise

Informed Consent

  • Specifics for IC in surgical research/surgical innovation

Surgical Innovation

 Introduction
 Defining "Innovation"
 Benefits and Drawbacks to Innovation  
  • Ethical Issues at Stake in Surgical Innovation
  • Balancing Surgical Innovation
  • Historical examples

 Identifying Surgical Innovation in Practice

  • Case scenarios

References
Appendix
Acknowledgements

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