Assessment of quality outcomes for robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy: Identification of the learning curve

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 416-422

  Boone, Brian A ^a   Zenati, Mazen ^a   Hogg, Melissa E ^a   Steve, Jennifer ^a   Moser, Arthur James ^b   Bartlett, David L ^a   Zeh, Herbert J ^a   Zureikat, Amer H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEARNING CURVE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTIC PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS; STANDARDS;

AGED; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84929691781     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: 21686262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.17     Document Type: Article

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