Statistics and Research Methods for Acute Care and General Surgeons, 1st ed. 2022 Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma Series

The main aim of this book is to offer an easy tool to read a scientific article with greater awareness, to understand and evaluate it more thoroughly, and to better plan research. Today, in the era of evidence-based medicine, both research and daily patient-focused clinical practice are no longer possible without a thorough knowledge of the literature and its continuous updates.

Written by surgeons for surgeons, this practical book makes the basic concept of statistics and research methodology easy to understand and apply for young surgeons and researchers, students and residents.

Part I) Designing Your Research.- 1) Study Typology: An Overview.- 2) Diagnostic Studies Made Easy.- 3) Common Pitfalls in Research Design and Its Reporting.- Part II) Basic Statistical Analysis.- 4) Introduction to Statistical Method: Hypothesis, Aim, Errors, p-value, Bias.- 5) Analyzing Continuous Variables: Descriptive Statistics, Dispersion and Comparison.- 6) Analyzing Categorical Variable: Descriptive Statistics and Comparisons.- Part III) Advanced Statistics.- 7) Multiple Regressions.- 8) Survival Analyses of Surgical Data in Practice: How to Survive.- 9) Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.- 10) Randomized Trials and Case Control Matching Techniques.- 11) Difference-in-Difference Techniques and Causal Inference.- 12) An Introduction to Machine Learning Based Predictive Modeling Methods for Acute Care and General Surgeons.- 13) Statistical Editor's Practical Advice for Data Analysis.

Marco Ceresoli  graduated from the Milano Bicocca University and currently works as General Surgeon at the San Gerardo University Hospital in Monza. He is a member of the World Society of Emergency Surgery with the role of consultant for guidelines development and methodology. His research is focused on  emergency surgery with a special interest in development and application of evidence based medicine in daily practice and research. He serves as a member of editorial board of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery and BMC Surgery.

Kristan Staudenmayer received her medical degree from the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical School and completed her residency in General Surgery at Parkland Hospital. Her clinical focus is on trauma, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care, and her research interests encompass trauma systems of care and vulnerable patient populations such as the elderly. She contributes nationally towards the academic mission by serving on committees for both the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Fausto Catena is Chief of General and Emergency Surgery Department, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy. He worke