Table of contents

Original research

• Feasibility of using real-world data in the evaluation of cardiac ablation catheters: a test-case of the National Evaluation System for Health Technology Coordinating Center (9 December, 2021)

  Sanket S Dhruva, Guoqian Jiang, Amit A Doshi, Daniel J Friedman, Eric Brandt, Jiajing Chen, Joseph G Akar, Joseph S Ross, Keondae R Ervin, Kimberly Collison Farr, Nilay D Shah, Paul Coplan, Peter A. Noseworthy, Shumin Zhang, Thomas Forsyth, Wade L Schulz, Yue Yu, Joseph P Drozda, Jr.
• 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)

  Nikisha Patel, Nathan Yung, Ganesh Vigneswaran, Laure de Preux, Drew Maclean, Mark Harris, Bhaskar Somani, Timothy Bryant, Nigel Hacking, Sachin Modi
• Assessing the development status of intraoperative fluorescence imaging for perfusion assessments, using the IDEAL framework (20 October, 2021)

  Takeaki Ishizawa, Peter McCulloch, Derek Muehrcke, Thomas Carus, Ory Wiesel, Giovanni Dapri, Sylke Schneider-Koriath, Steven D Wexner, Mahmoud Abu-Gazala, Luigi Boni, Elisa Cassinotti, Charles Sabbagh, Ronan Cahill, Frederic Ris, Michele Carvello, Antonino Spinelli, Eric Vibert, Muga Terasawa, Mikiya Takao, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Rutger M Schols, Tim Pruimboom, Yasuo Murai, Fumihiro Matano, Michael Bouvet, Michele Diana, Norihiro Kokudo, Fernando Dip, Kevin White, Raul J Rosenthal
• Assessment of the training program for Versius, a new innovative robotic system for use in minimal access surgery (19 October, 2021)

  Jessica Butterworth, Margaux Sadry, Danielle Julian, Fiona Haig
• Cohort study of impact on length of stay of individual enhanced recovery after surgery protocol components (15 September, 2021)

  Rachel C. Sisodia, Dan Ellis, Michael Hidrue, Pamela Linov, Elena Cavallo, Allison S. Bryant, May Wakamatsu, Marcela G. del Carmen
• How to tie dangerous surgical knots: easily. Can we avoid this? (13 July, 2021)

  Eric Drabble, Sofia Spanopoulou, Eleni Sioka, Ellie Politaki, Ismini Paraskeva, Effrosyni Palla, Lauren Stockley, Dimitris Zacharoulis
• COVIDTrach: a prospective cohort study of mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 undergoing tracheostomy in the UK (8 July, 2021)

  COVIDTrach collaborative
• Tissue stress from laparoscopic grasper use and bowel injury in humans: establishing intraoperative force boundaries (5 July, 2021)

  Amanda Farah Khan, Matthew Kenneth MacDonald, Catherine Streutker, Corwyn Rowsell, James Drake, Teodor Grantcharov
• Meta-analysis with individual data of functional outcomes following Aquablation for lower urinary tract symptoms due to BPH in various prostate anatomies (24 June, 2021)

  Dean Elterman, Peter Gilling, Claus Roehrborn, Neil Barber, Vincent Misrai, Kevin C Zorn, Naeem Bhojani, Alexis Te, Mitch Humphreys, Steven Kaplan, Mihir Desai, Thorsten Bach
• Perceptions of partial gland ablation for prostate cancer among men on active surveillance: a qualitative study (21 April, 2021)

  Sonia Hur, Michael Tzeng, Eliza Cricco-Lizza, Spyridon Basourakos, Miko Yu, Jessica Ancker, Erika Abramson, Christopher Saigal, Ashley Ross, Jim Hu
• Analysis of the relationship between surgeon procedure volume and complications after total knee arthroplasty using a propensity-matched cohort study (2 April, 2021)

  Tosan Okoro, Sebastian Tomescu, J Michael Paterson, Bheeshma Ravi
• How can robot-assisted surgery provide value for money? (5 February, 2021)

  Sejal Patel, Maroeska M Rovers, Michiel J P Sedelaar, Petra L M Zusterzeel, Ad F T M Verhagen, Camiel Rosman, Janneke P C Grutters