Does Surgeon Experience Correlate with Crowd-Sourced Skill Assessment in Robotic Bariatric Surgery?

Journal: The American surgeon
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Global Evaluative Assessment of Robotic Skills (GEARS) rubric provides a measure of skill in robotic surgery. We hypothesize surgery performed by more experienced operators will be associated with higher GEARS scores.

Authors

  • Poppy Addison
    Intraoperative Performance Analytics Laboratory (IPAL), Department of General Surgery, Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital, 186 E. 76th Street, 1st Floor, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
  • Daniel P Bitner
    Intraoperative Performance Analytics Laboratory (IPAL), Department of General Surgery, Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital, 186 E. 76th Street, 1st Floor, New York, NY, 10021, USA. DBitner@northwell.edu.
  • Jermyn Addy
    Intraoperative Performance Analytics Laboratory, Department of General Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
  • Samuel Dechario
    Institute for Spine and Scoliosis, Lawrenceville, NJ, US.
  • Gregg Husk
    Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, US.
  • Anthony Antonacci
    Department of General Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health, New York, NY, US.
  • Mark Talamini
    Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA.
  • Gary Giangola
    Intraoperative Performance Analytics Laboratory, Department of General Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
  • Filippo Filicori
    Intraoperative Performance Analytics Laboratory (IPAL), Department of General Surgery, Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital, 186 E. 76th Street, 1st Floor, New York, NY, 10021, USA.