RAVAL trial: Protocol of an international, multi-centered, blinded, randomized controlled trial comparing robotic-assisted versus video-assisted lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer

• Yogita S. Patel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: patelys@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7585-1358

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• Waël C. Hanna ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Christine Fahim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Yaron Shargall ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Thomas K. Waddell ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Kazuhiro Yasufuku ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Tiago N. Machuca ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Mauricio Pipkin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jean-Marc Baste ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rouen Normandy University, Rouen Cedex, France

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• Feng Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Andrea Shiwcharan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Funding Reform and Case Costing, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Gary Foster ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Lehana Thabane

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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