Areas of expertise
design and analysis of surgical trials and observational studies, multivariate analysis, meta-analysis, design and analysis of registries
Profile
Forough Farrokhyar is an Associate Clinical Professor and Research Mentor in the Department of Surgery. She is also a Faculty Member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a member of the Hamilton Health Sciences/McMaster University Ethics Board.
Main research interests include the assessment of short-term and long-term outcomes of chronic conditions, examination of relationships between risk factors and outcomes, comparative studies (randomized controlled trials, cohort and case-control studies), systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Specific research areas have included orthopedic surgery, general surgery, plastic surgery, evidence-based practice in surgery and gastroenterology.
Relevant Publications (from the last 5 years)
Cadeddu M, Haines T, Farrokhyar F, Thoma A, User's guide to the surgical literature: How to assess power and sample size. Canadian Journal of Surgery. In print.
Mastracci T, Thoma A, Farrokhyar F, Tandon T, Cina C. User's guide to a surgical literature. How to use a decision analysis. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 2007 Oct; 50 ( 5 ): 403-9.
Sprague S, Lutz K, Bryant D, Farrokhyar F, Zlowodski M, Bhandari M. Complementary and alternative medicine use in patients with fractures. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedic and Related Research. 2007 Oct; 463: 173-8
Poolman RW, Farrokhyar F, Bhandari M. Hamstring tendon autograft better than bone patellar-tendon bone autograft in ACL reconstruction. A cumulative meta-analysis and clinically relevant sensitivity analysis applied to a previously published analysis. Acta Orthopaedica. 2007; 78(3):350-354.
Ghert M, Alsaleh K, Farrokhyar F, Colterjohn N. Outcomes of an anatomically-based approach to metastatic disease of the acetabulum. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedic and Related Research. 2007 Jun; 459:122-127.
Poolman RW, Keijser LC, de Waal Malefijt MC, Blankevoort L, Farrokhyar F, Bhandari M, Dutch Orthopedic Association Scientific Committee. Reviewer agreement in scoring 419 abstracts for scientific orthopedic meetings. Acta Orthopaedica. 2007; 78(2):278-284.
R udolf W. Poolman, Peter A.A. Struijs, Rover Krips, Inger N. Sierevelt, René K. Marti, Forough Farrokhyar, Mohit Bhandari. Reporting of Outcomes In Orthopaedic Randomized Trials: Does Blinding of Outcome Assessors Matter? The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Am March 2007; 89 (3):550-558. Review.
Poolman RW, Sierevelt IN, Farrokhyar F, Mazel JA, Blankevoort L, Bhandari M. Perceptions and Competence in Evidence Based Medicine: Are Surgeons Getting Better? A questionnaire survey of members of the Dutch Orthopaedic Association. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Am 2007 Jan; 89(1):206-15.
Thoma A, Farrokhyar F, Bhandari M, Tandan V, Evidence Based Surgery Working Group. Users' guide to the surgical literature. How to assess a randomized controlled trial in Surgery. Canadian Journal of Surgery. June 2004, 47(3):200-208.
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