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  • Dr. Carlos Chacon

A Comprehensive Literature Review in Plastic Surgery

A systematic review evaluates research quality and identifies gaps in knowledge. In plastic surgery, a systematic review may assess the quality of reconstructive surgery studies and highlight the most relevant research topics to examine further. In this study, the authors address the best research, clinical trial reporting, and economic evaluation. They also explain machine learning's clinical and plastic surgical applications.


Economic analyses in plastic surgery can evaluate cost-effectiveness trade-offs and propose innovative surgical procedures. But these evaluations may be better. Surgeons need a health economist to assess an economy.


The Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) can be used to evaluate economic evaluations in cosmetic surgery. The CHEERS is not a one-size-fits-all measurement, but it provides a baseline. This is crucial to knowledge translation.


The most crucial statistic in plastic surgery is pain. It's not the best measure of surgical treatment, but it can show if it will ease the misery. Some steps may be better. For example, quantifying the cost of a procedure may be more helpful.


In plastic surgery, machine learning may be utilized for numerous goals. They enhance surgical treatment, patient outcomes and prognosis, and surgical planning procedures.


Improve clinical diagnosis. This is achievable using machine learning algorithms that can determine an intervention's prognosis. It can be used alone or with additional approaches.


CAD systems can minimize operation times, expenses, and patient issues. Also, they can improve the surgical strategy. But they require human input and don't increase doctor-patient communication.


Machine learning is utilized by plastic surgeons to anticipate surgery effects on skull abnormalities. In microsurgery, it can predict surgical site infections.


Complex study selection for surgeons in training. Its goal is to assess the impact of surgical training on selected candidates. This method is professional growth and system-based.


Countries have varying trainee requirements. Others require an internship before surgical training. The internship period varies.


Surgical trainees may need to pass a national test, depending on the country. Postgraduate years vary from 4 in Colombia to 10 in the UK.


Surgical training requires a lot of commitment. Every doctor must instruct the future generation. In surgery, women and minorities are underrepresented. Therefore, national surgical societies have established initiatives to boost underrepresented populations.


The quality of plastic surgery RCT reporting has been questioned. Two evaluations have assessed report quality. Several articles have examined the quality of surgical reporting.


Plastic surgeons have published RCTs for years. Surgical journals require stricter methodological guidelines for excellent reporting. These studies propose training in trial methodology.


The growing demand for specialist therapies has led to a rise in publications. It's important to increase research quality to promote plastic surgery practice.


The CONSORT Statement is required by many journals. The checklist offers a standard format for reporting randomized clinical studies. The 1996 statement was revised.

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