[Looking forward to the future direction of colorectal surgery in the perspective of clinical research and data collection]

Colorectal surgery has been developed rapidly in China because of the advance of minimally invasive surgical techniques, perioperative comprehensive treatment strategies and clinical research in recent years. Comparing the current diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer between China and western industrialized countries, it can be found that the specialized construction and standardized diagnosis and treatment of colorectal surgery in western industrialized countries are very mature, and the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment model of colorectal cancer has been standardized. Although there is almost no difference between high-level colorectal cancer centers in the eastern coastal areas of China and western countries, due to the vast size and uneven regional development of China, standardized surgery and standardized treatment concepts of colorectal surgery still need to be popularized. Combined with the current diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer in China, more high-quality clinical research should be carried out to seek new development and breakthroughs in the field of colorectal surgery. Combined with the experience of international and domestic clinical research that has been participated in or carried out, the author believes that quality control of clinical research should be carried out from the following two points: 1. structured training and quality control of research; 2. establishment and management of databases. In a word, we should not only focus on colon surgery itself, but also complete the transformation to research-oriented doctors and research-oriented disciplines, cultivate the concept of data collection and clinical research, enhance the scientific awareness of clinical research, and integrate high-quality data collection and clinical research into daily clinical practice. Only in this way can we fundamentally improve the comprehensive strength of China's colorectal surgery, effectively carry out surgical-related clinical research based on the current situation colorectal diseases in China, and obtain high-level evidence-based medical evidence based on the research results of the population of patients in China, and form a guide for the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal surgery in China, which will also guide the clinical practice of patients with colorectal diseases in China. This will certainly be a new direction for the development of Chinese colorectal surgery.得益于近年来微创外科技术的发展、围手术期综合治疗策略和临床研究的进步，我国的结直肠外科也得到了快速发展。但对比我国与欧美发达国家的结直肠癌诊疗现状可以发现，西方发达国家的结直肠外科的专科化建设和规范化诊疗已经非常成熟，结直肠癌的多学科诊疗模式业已规范化运行。尽管我国东部沿海地区的高水平结直肠癌诊疗中心与西方国家相比已几乎无差距，但由于我国幅员辽阔且地区发展不平衡，结直肠外科的标准化手术以及规范化治疗理念仍有待普及。我国结直肠外科领域要寻求新的发展和突破，就要进一步开展更高质量的临床研究。笔者结合已参与和开展的国际国内临床研究经验，认为应该从以下两点对临床研究进行质量控制：（1）研究的结构化培训和质量控制；（2）数据库的建立和管理。总之不能仅将注意力集中于结直肠外科手术本身，更要完成向研究型医生、研究型学科的转变，培养开展数据收集和临床研究的理念，增强临床研究的科研意识，将高质量的数据收集和临床研究融入到日常临床实践的工作中。这样才能从根本上提高中国结直肠外科的综合实力，有效开展基于我国结直肠疾病现状的外科相关临床研究，并获得基于我国患者人群研究结果的高级别循证医学证据，形成我国结直肠外科诊断治疗相关的指南，用于指导我国结直肠疾病患者的外科临床实践，这也必将是中国结直肠外科发展的新方向。.