The Role of Early Adopter Bias for New Technologies in Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1318-1323

  Tseng, Timothy Y ^a   Cancel, Quinton V ^a   Fesperman, Susan F ^a   Kuebler, Hubert R ^a   Sun, Leon ^a   Robertson, Cary N ^a   Polascik, Thomas J ^a   Moul, Judd W ^a   Vieweg, Johannes ^a   Albala, David M ^a   Dahm, Philipp ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

outcome assessment (health care); prostate; prostatectomy; robotics; selection bias

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; INCOME; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947383376     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.11.035     Document Type: Article

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