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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:1140-1141
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Editorial

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons practice guidelines

^a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida/Shands Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
^b Departments of Surgery and Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

^* Address reprint requests to Dr Edwards, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida/Shands Jacksonville, 655 West 8th St, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USA
e-mail: fhe@comcast.net

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Evidence-based practice guidelines have become commonplace in the last few years. For readers of this journal, probably the most well known are the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines. These guidelines cover some topics of interest to thoracic surgeons, but with the possible exception of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline on coronary artery bypass grafting surgery, the treatment of surgical topics is fairly superficial. Clearly there is a need for practice guidelines developed by thoracic surgeons for thoracic surgeons.

In this issue, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) presents the first in a new series of practice guidelines [1]. These STS guidelines will be developed by the Workforce on Evidence-Based Surgery and will be extensively reviewed at several levels within the STS leadership before publication.

Purpose

Our intent is to provide a service to STS members. In recent years the sheer volume of surgical literature . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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