Reproducibility of Published Randomized Controlled Trial Results in Cardiovascular Surgery: Protocol for a Meta-Epidemiological Umbrella Review

Allen Li   ¹ , MD ;   Arshia P Javidan   ¹ , MSc, MD ;   Daniel J Niven   ² , MD, PhD ;   Henry T Stelfox   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Dean A Fergusson   ⁴ , PhD ;   Mamas A Mamas   ⁵ , BMBCh, DPhil ;   Prasad Jetty   ⁴ , MSc, MD ;   Charles de Mestral   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Risa Shorr   ⁴ , MLS ;   Subodh Verma   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Munir Boodhwani   ⁴ , MMSc, MD ;   Derek J Roberts   ⁴ , MD, PhD

¹ Division of Vascular Surgery and Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

³ Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁴ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁵ Keele University, Stoke on Trent, England, United Kingdom