PD89 Global Versus Regional Evidence To Evaluate Robotic-Assisted Surgery: A Systematic Literature Review And Meta-Analysis
Ana Yankovsky, Usha Kreaden, April Hebert, Neera Patel, Matthew Lien · 2025
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Ana Yankovsky and four co-authors compare worldwide and regional evidence on da Vinci robot-assisted surgery for seven cancer operations. Health assessment bodies increasingly judge the robot on local studies, raising the question of whether regional verdicts match the global pool. The team gathered reviews at three scales: global, pan-European, and pan-Asian. Their search through 2022 found two hundred thirty studies comparing the robot with keyhole or open surgery.
The scales agreed on conversion rates, transfusions, and hospital stay. They disagreed on operating time, complications, readmissions, reoperations, and deaths, with the direction of some effects flipping by region. The authors suggest surgeon experience, thin local evidence, or hidden regional biases explain the splits. Assessment agencies, they advise, should weigh these gaps before trusting regional data over the global pool. The work shows geography can tilt surgical evidence even for one machine.
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| CREATOR | Ana Yankovsky, Usha Kreaden, April Hebert, Neera Patel, Matthew Lien |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |