Association of Surgical Skill Assessment With Clinical Outcomes in Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Complex surgical interventions are inherently prone to variation yet they are not objectively measured. The reasons for outcome differences following cancer surgery are unclear.

Objective

To quantify surgical skill within advanced laparoscopic procedures and its association with histopathological and clinical outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This analysis of data and video from the Australasian Laparoscopic Cancer of Rectum (ALaCaRT) and 2-dimensional/3-dimensional (2D3D) multicenter randomized laparoscopic total mesorectal excision trials, which were conducted at 28 centers in Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, was performed from 2018 to 2019 and included 176 patients with clinical T1 to T3 rectal adenocarcinoma 15 cm or less from t

SUBMITTER: Curtis NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7203671 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature