Factors associated with adoption of robotic surgical technology in US hospitals and relationship to radical prostatectomy procedure volume

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Barbash, Gabriel I ^a   Friedman, Bernard ^c   Glied, Sherry A ^b   Steiner, Claudia A ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion ofmedical technologies; Hospital competition; Radical prostatectomy; Robot assisted surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891623287     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182a5c8b8     Document Type: Article

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