BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies

is an open access journal from BMJ dedicated to disseminating high quality research and reviews on surgery, surgical devices, and complex healthcare interventions.

BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies is an open access journal that publishes original research on complex healthcare interventions. Intended to encourage higher standards of science and more rapid dissemination of new knowledge in the field, it provides a high-impact international platform for both early and later stage clinical studies as well as long-term assessment and surveillance studies that meet high standards of design and reporting. It actively promotes the adoption of an IDEAL-based model of an evaluation framework and encourages the submission of studies at progressive stages, with a focus on device-based surgical and invasive treatments.

BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies adheres to the highest possible industry standards concerning publication ethics. To read the journal's detailed guidelines please see our policies.

Editor-in-Chief:
Art Sedrakyan, MD, PhD, ScD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Peter McCulloch, MD, University of Oxford
Editorial Board

Current Issue

Recent Articles

Original research:

Cardiac coronary tomography angiography (CCTA) use across geographical regions in the USA and the UK: a cross-sectional study

15 November 2023

Original research:

The international variability of surgery for rectal prolapse

14 November 2023

Editorial:

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

25 October 2023

Analysis:

Medical device risk (re)classification: lessons from the FDAs 515 Program Initiative

29 September 2023

Authors

BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies accepts original research, reviews, protocols, and registry reports in a number of formats.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for BMJ SIT.

Information is also provided on editorial policies, Open Access fees and formatting

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Most Read Articles

Original research:

Systematic review and meta-analysis of Veress needle entry versus direct trocar entry in gynecologic surgery

28 June 2022

Review:

Debridement of diabetic foot ulcers: public health and clinical implications – a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression

30 May 2022

Protocol:

Surgery versus non-operative treatment for ER-stress unstable Weber-B unimalleolar fractures: a study protocol for a prospective randomized non-inferiority (Super-Fin) trial

8 December 2021

Original research:

Safe implementation of surgical innovation: a prospective registry of the Versius Robotic Surgical System

27 February 2023

Original research:

1-year cost-utility analysis of prostate artery embolization (PAE) versus transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)

11 November 2021

The Precision Prostatectomy

BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies is pleased to launch with a groundbreaking IDEAL-based study on the prostatectomy procedure.

+ The Precision Prostatectomy: an IDEAL Stage 0, 1 and 2a Study (19 August, 2019)

+ Innovation in surgery (19 August, 2019)

+ Precision prostatectomy: reconciling functional and oncological outcomes (19 August, 2019)

Meet the Editors

BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies is led by Peter McCulloch and Art Sedrakyan. Dr. McCulloch serves as Professor of Surgical Science & Practice in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Science at the University of Oxford and the Chair of the IDEAL Collaboration, while Dr. Sedrakyan is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and the leader of the Medical Device Epidemiology Network’s (MDEpiNet) Coordinating, Science and Infrastructure Center. Together, they work to make BMJ SIT a forum for the scientific evaluation and improvement of surgery and other complex interventions.