Impact of surgeon experience on routine prolapse operations.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and hypothesis

Surgical work encompasses important aspects of personal and manual skills. In major surgery, there is a positive correlation between surgical experience and results. For pelvic organ prolapse (POP), this relationship has to our knowledge never been examined. In any clinical practice, there is always a certain proportion of inexperienced surgeons. In Sweden, most prolapse surgeons have little experience in performing prolapse operations, 74% conducting the procedure once a month or less. Simultaneously, surgery for POP globally has failure rates of 25-30%. In other words, for most surgeons, the operation is a low-frequency procedure, and outcomes are unsatisfactory. The aim of this study was to clarify the acceptability of having a high proportion of low-

SUBMITTER: Nussler E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5780527 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature