Is the Power Threshold of 0.8 Applicable to Surgical Science?-Empowering the Underpowered Study.

High-impact surgical science was routinely unable to reach the arbitrary power standard of 0.8. The academic surgical community should reconsider the power threshold as it applies to surgical investigations. We contend that the blueprint for the redesign should include benchmarking the power of articles on a gradient scale, instead of aiming for an unreasonable threshold.