Trainees Do Not Negatively Impact the Institutional Learning Curve for Robotic Prostatectomy as Characterized by Operative Time, Estimated Blood Loss, and Positive Surgical Margin Rate

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 597-601

  Schroeck, Florian R ^a   Palha de Sousa, Chiquita A ^a   Kalman, Ross A ^a   Kalia, Maitri S ^a   Pierre, Sean A ^a   Haleblian, George E ^a   Sun, Leon ^a   Moul, Judd W ^a   Albala, David M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EVALUATION RESEARCH; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RANK SUM TEST; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHING;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41149091860     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.12.023     Document Type: Article

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