Idle time: An underdeveloped performance metric for assessing surgical skill

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 645-651

  D'Angelo, Anne Lise D ^a   Rutherford, Drew N ^a,b   Ray, Rebecca D ^a   Laufer, Shlomi ^a,c   Kwan, Calvin ^a   Cohen, Elaine R ^a   Mason, Andrea ^b   Pugh, Carla M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Idle time; Motion tracking; Path length; Simulation; Surgical skills

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE BANDAGE; ARTICLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; IDLE TIME; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTION TRACKING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PILOT STUDY; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RESIDENT; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL SKILL; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; ANATOMIC MODEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PILOT PROJECTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925304092     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.12.013     Document Type: Article

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