NIH R01 · 2025
Rapid Adoption of Robotic Surgery: Risks, Benefits, and Unintended Consequences
PROJECT SUMMARY The United States now performs more robotic surgery than all other countries combined. While the overall volume of robotic surgery has tripled in the past decade, its use for the most common general surgery operations (e.g. inguinal hernia repair or gallbladder removal) has increased more than 24- fold over this same period. Despite this, evidence regarding the use and clinical outcomes of robotic surgery for these operations is limited – putting patients at risk between enthusiasm for a new surgical technology and insufficient evidence to justify large changes in clinical practice. Existing observational studies lack appropriate controls and the small number of randomized…
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