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[...]librarians are an excellent resource at any stage of the literature review and can aid with database selection or creating search strategies. Literature review is a difficult skill to master, but essential for surgeon-scientists.Author contributions PB Schwartz, L Christensen, and SN Zafar all...

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Published inThe American journal of surgery Vol. 224; no. 3; pp. 1019 - 1022
Main Authors Schwartz, Patrick B., Christensen, Leslie, Zafar, Syed Nabeel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Inc 01.09.2022
Elsevier Limited
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Adenocarcinoma
Boolean
Cancer
Citation management software
Editorials
Fistula
Funding
Hypotheses
Librarians
Literature reviews
Octreotide
Pancreas
Pancreatic cancer
Subject heading schemes
Tumors
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Summary:[...]librarians are an excellent resource at any stage of the literature review and can aid with database selection or creating search strategies. Literature review is a difficult skill to master, but essential for surgeon-scientists.Author contributions PB Schwartz, L Christensen, and SN Zafar all drafted the manuscript, provided critical revisions, and approve the final manuscript submission.Disclosures The authors report no proprietary or commercial interest in any product mentioned or concept discussed in this article.Funding This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.Appendix A Supplementary data Supplemental File 1: PICO Framework P = Patient/Problem Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who underwent surgical resection I = Intervention Octreotide C = Comparison Versus none O = Outcome Decrease postoperative pancreatic fistula incidence Table 2 PICO framework.
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ISSN:0002-9610
1879-1883
1879-1883
DOI:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.04.026