Crowd-sourced assessment of technical skills: Differentiating animate surgical skill through the wisdom of crowds

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1183-1188

  Holst, Daniel ^a   Kowalewski, Timothy M ^b   White, Lee W ^c   Brand, Timothy C ^d   Harper, Jonathan D ^a   Sorensen, Mathew D ^a   Truong, Mireille ^e   Simpson, Khara ^e   Tanaka, Alyssa ^e   Smith, Roger ^e   Lendvay, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDSOURCING; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOT ASSISTED SURGERY; SKILL; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; BLADDER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; PIG; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; STANDARDS; SURGERY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROWDSOURCING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SWINE; URINARY BLADDER; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84933513900     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2015.0104     Document Type: Article

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