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Reviewing previously published literature seems time-consuming and boring when compared to performing clinical or laboratory experiments to develop new information in surgery. For this reason, the task of reviewing and summarizing the literature is often delegated to a research assistant or the most junior member of the team.
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Neugebauer, E.A.M., Lefering, R., McPeek, B., Wood-Dauphinée, S. (1998). Systematically Reviewing Previous Work. In: Troidl, H., McKneally, M.F., Mulder, D.S., Wechsler, A.S., McPeek, B., Spitzer, W.O. (eds) Surgical Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1888-3_38
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