Crowdsourcing to assess surgical skill

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1086-1087

  Lendvay, Thomas S ^a   White, Lee ^b   Kowalewski, Timothy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CROWDSOURCING; DECENTRALIZATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE COST; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY CONTROL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; SHORT SURVEY; SURGERY; SURGICAL TRAINING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROWDSOURCING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948161588     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: 21686262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.2405     Document Type: Short Survey

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