Generate evidence
Clinically relevant studies in emergency surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care.
Department of Surgery · Perelman School of Medicine · University of Pennsylvania
Evidence for when it is anything but elective.
CESOR generates evidence for trauma, emergency surgery, and surgical critical care.
Clinical focusEmergency surgery
Care settingsTrauma + critical care
Methodologic coreOutcomes + causal inference
Mission
Answer high-stakes questions in acute surgical care.
CESOR studies urgent care using multicenter clinical research, observational cohorts, and causal inference methods.
The goal is simple: better decisions, more consistent care, and better outcomes.
Center priorities
Three things CESOR does.
Support project development
Study design, data infrastructure, and analytic support for new projects.
Translate findings into practice
Findings aimed at practice, not publication alone.
IDES
The front door for new projects.
Bring a study idea, clinical problem, or unanswered question. CESOR helps shape it into a rigorous project.
Start with
An idea
Build
A study
Connect
People and methods
Explore
About, Research, People, IDES.
About
What CESOR is.
Research
What CESOR studies.
People
Who is involved.
IDES
How new projects begin.
Next step
Have a question worth answering?
Start with IDES.
Open IDES