Randomized trials in robotic surgery: A practical impossibility?

International Urogynecology Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1045-1047

  Collins, Sarah ^a   Tulikangas, Paul ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACCELEROMETER; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; ERGONOMICS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MARKETING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; ROBOTIC SURGERY; ROBOTICS; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

EID: 77956527528     PISSN: 09373462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00192-010-1220-3     Document Type: Editorial

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