This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Jacques M Himpens during the Robots, Robots, Robots – Vision of the Past, Present, and Future on April 14 2018
Keyword(s): access, adults, amerterization, anastomotic complications, anesthesia, bariatric surgery, Belgium, benchmarks, benign disease, blood loss, budget, case load, complications, consensus, conversion, cost, cost-effectiveness, degrees of freedom, DFS, disease free survival, disposable instruments, education, endometrial cancer, ergonomics, evaluation, fatigue, fee-for-service, FFS, gastroscopy, hysterectomy, internet marketing, JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, laparoscopic hysterectomy, laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopy, laparotomy, length of stay, LOS, meta-analysis, mortality, National Inpatient Surgery, NIS database, obese, open hysterectomy, open surgery, operative time, outcomes, patient reported outcomes, Portugal, PROs, prostatectomy, providers, quality, rectal cancer surgery, rectal surgery, reimbursement, reusable instruments, risk analysis, robotic bariatric surgery, robotic cholecystectomy, robotic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, robotic RYGB, robotic single-site cholecystectomy, robotic sleeve gastrectomy, robotic surgeon, robotic surgery, robotic-assisted surgery, robotics, robots, Scandinavia, staple line, survival, Switzerland, trocars, value-based assessment, world economics
Citations–1:08 J Surg Oncol 2018
Robotics & education–20:40 J Surg Res 2017
Take home message–21:15