Decreasing Electrosurgical Transurethral Resection of the Prostate Surgical Volume During Graduate Medical Education Training is Associated With Increased Surgical Adverse Events

Journal of Urology

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1515-1519

  Sandhu, Jaspreet S ^a,b   Jaffe, William I ^c   Chung, Doreen E ^a,b   Kaplan, Steven A ^b   Te, Alexis E ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

education, medical, graduate; prostatectomy; transurethral resection of prostate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTROSURGERY; GRADUATE STUDENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 77949279103     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.12.025     Document Type: Article

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