Analysis of the Structure of Surgical Activity for a Suturing and Knot-Tying Task.

Analysis of the Structure of Surgical Activity for a Suturing and Knot-Tying Task.

BACKGROUND:Surgical tasks are performed in a sequence of steps, and technical skill evaluation includes assessing task flow efficiency. Our objective was to describe differences in task flow for expert and novice surgeons for a basic surgical task. METHODS:We used a hierarchical semantic vocabulary...

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Main Authors: S Swaroop Vedula, Anand O Malpani, Lingling Tao, George Chen, Yixin Gao, Piyush Poddar, Narges Ahmidi, Christopher Paxton, Rene Vidal, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Gregory D Hager, Chi Chiung Grace Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4780814?pdf=render

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