Reliability of urological telesurgery compared with local surgery: multicentre randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether the reliability of telesurgery is non-inferior to that of standard local surgery in patients undergoing urological robotic operations.

Design

Multicentre, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Five hospitals in China from December 2023 to June 2024.

Participants

Patients scheduled to undergo radical prostatectomy or partial nephrectomy.

Interventions

Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to undergo telesurgery or local surgery.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome was the probability of success of surgery, determined by the medical team on the basis of pre-established criteria. The pre-specified non-inferiority margin was an absolute reduction in probability of 0.1. Thirteen clinical secondary ou

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12849050 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature