• 1. Chinese Evidence-based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 2. Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, 100142, P.R.China;
  • 3. IDEAL Collaboration, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom;
  • 4. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery & Laboratory of Gastric Cancer, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 5. Real World Data Research and Innovation Center of Boao Lecheng, Qionghai, 571435, Hainan, P.R.China;
  • 6. Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 7. Chinese Clinical Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 8. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, P.R.China;
  • 9. Guangdong Provincial Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangzhou, 510080, P.R.China;
  • 10. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, 510080, P.R.China;
  • 11. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, P.R.China;
LI Youping, Email: yzmylab@hotmail.com
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Surgical innovation is an important part of surgical research and practice. The evaluation of surgical innovation through the stages is similar to those for drug development, but with important differences. The Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment, and Long-term follow-up (IDEAL) Framework and Recommendations represent a new paradigm for the evaluation of surgical intervention and devices which was developed in 2009. The IDEAL is a five-stage framework involving the nature stages of surgical innovation, together with recommendations for surgical research pathway. The Framework and Recommendations were updated and published in 2019, which added a pre-IDEAL stage if necessary. The updated IDEAL also underlines the purpose, key question and ethical issues for each stage. In the first paper of IDEAL Framework and Recommendations series, we conducted a comprehensive introduction of IDEAL (e.g. the development, updates and application of IDEAL) to promote the dissemination and application of IDEAL in China.

Citation: YU Jiajie, SHAN Fei, Peter McCulloch, Allison Hirst, HU Jiankun, SUN Xin, LI Youping, LIU Lunxu, LIU Xuemei, DONG Lianguo, CHEN Jimei, QIAO Guibin, LI Hecheng. The methodological framework of surgical innovation: the introduction of IDEAL framework and recommendation. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2021, 28(2): 131-136. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202011088 Copy

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