• Sherif Emil, Elena Guadagno, Robert Baird, Pramod Puligandla, Rodrigo Romao, Lisa Van HouWelingen, Natalie L Yanchar, and Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery (CanCORPS).
• From the Harvey E Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; Montreal, Quebec (Emil, Guadagno, Puligandla).
• J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2022 Dec 1; 235 (6): 952961952-961.

AbstractClinical practice should be driven by high-quality research that produces evidence to inform best practices. Generation of such evidence is often challenging, particularly for smaller specialties, such as pediatric surgery, that treat many patients with rare diseases. Multi-institutional collaboration is seen as a major strategy to address these challenges. We have recently created the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery, a national consortium that includes all major pediatric surgical services across Canada. The mission of the Consortium is to improve pediatric surgical care through high-quality collaborative research. In this article, we describe the rationale and methodology for creation of the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery, demonstrate its achievements to date, and share a number of foundational concepts that are integral to its success. Our aim is to provide a model for creation of such consortia, ultimately leading to improvements in the quality of clinical research and patient care.Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Surgeons.

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