∗Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
†Bristol Centre for Surgical Research, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
‡University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK
§Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
¶Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
||Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
∗∗Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Kingston University and St George's, University of London, London, UK
††Department of Philosophy and Department of Clinical Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
‡‡Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
§§Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
¶¶Surgery Theme, Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, Cambridge, UK
||||Department of Plastic Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
∗∗∗Department of Urology, Minneapolis VAMC and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
†††Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
Reprints: Peter McCulloch, MD, Professor of Surgical Science and Practice, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (Level 6), John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. E-mail: [email protected]; Allison Hirst, MSc, IDEAL Collaboration Project Manager/Researcher, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (Level 6), John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. E-mail: [email protected].
No specific funding was obtained for this update of IDEAL. The discussion meeting was funded as part of the IDEAL International Conference in Oxford on April 7, 2016 by several sponsors as follows: the Oxford Academic Health Science network (Oxford AHSN), The Health Foundation, Medtronic, and Johnson and Johnson (J&J). It was also supported by BMJ and the Lancet. IDEAL is funded by the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, educational grants and meetings income (PMcC and A.H.). J.M.B. is an NIHR Senior Investigator supported in part by the Medical Research Council (MRC) ConDuCT-II (Collaboration and innovation for Difficult and Complex randomized controlled Trials in Invasive procedures) Hub (MR/K025643/1) and the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre at the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the UK National Health Service, National Institute for Health Research, or Department of Health.
This paper updates the IDEAL Framework and Recommendations following review at international expert meetings held during IDEAL Conferences in Oxford, UK in 2016 and New York, USA in 2017.
A.D.H. and Y.P. contributed equally as joint first authors.
A.S. and P.Mc.C. contributed equally as joint senior authors on behalf of IDEAL Collaboration (attendees at 2016 Oxford consensus meeting listed in full in Acknowledgements with permission).
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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