Abstract
Many specialist groups have developed clinical trial initiatives in response to the growing need for more collaborative research, and these are proliferating in multiple countries across the globe. The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), under the direction of Professor John Windsor, established the clinical trials network of Australia and New Zealand (CTANZ). CTANZ supports the Australasian clinical trials in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery (ACTPRAS) research group which has already facilitated two multicentre, international, collaborative studies.
Highlights
Stanley, Hirth and Findlay: Collaborative research in Australian plastic surgery additional benefits as they ameliorate many of the problems of smaller, single-centre studies such as confounder bias
There is a common method to the studies run by ACTPRAS and similar collaborative groups which is best summed up by the democratisation of authorship, the appropriate use of technology and the large-scale recruitment of volunteer data collectors
The robust research electronic data capture (REDCap) platform has proven itself as a data repository, wherever there is an internet connection
Summary
Hirth and Findlay: Collaborative research in Australian plastic surgery additional benefits as they ameliorate many of the problems of smaller, single-centre studies such as confounder bias. There is a common method to the studies run by ACTPRAS and similar collaborative groups which is best summed up by the democratisation of authorship, the appropriate use of technology and the large-scale recruitment of volunteer data collectors. Every collaborator in a large, multicentre study benefits from a publication that can be Medline listed and citable.
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