Evaluating innovation in surgery and therapeutic technology: the IDEAL approach. A series of talks given by medical professionals about improving the quality of research in surgery.

novel iPhone application to analyse cervical spine motion restriction with different size and type of cervical orthoses

Explaining the views after being put into practice.

The case of innovative bilateral DIEP flap surgery.

An observational analysis of research activity and output.

A multicenter IDEAL study.

A national comparative effectiveness study

Early stage surgical innovation of a novel bio-wrap-assisted vasectomy reversal technique.

Evaluation surgical innovation of international examples

First 500 Registrations of the ResearchRegistry.com.

A comparative analysis of HTA of robotic surgery.

IDEAL surgical innovation in practice.

The value of adding decision analytical modelling to the IDEAL framework

A case study of REBOA.

Step 1-2 of IDEAL recommendations of surgical innovation

Regulation, Commissioning, HTA and Policy

Methodological advances in evaluation

We describe the challenges faced in the assessment of a novel surgical device, the X-Bolt, for the treatment of hip fractures from IDEAL stage 2a to 3.

The application of the IDEAL framework through regulation, commission and policy.

Evolving IDEAL Prof Peter McCulloch talks about the developments in surgical innovation evaluation.