Integration of robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration, and decision making: a realist process evaluation protocol
Open Access
- 2 May 2014
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Nature in Implementation Science
- Vol. 9 (1) , 52
Abstract
Robotic surgery offers many potential benefits for patients. While an increasing number of healthcare providers are purchasing surgical robots, there are reports that the technology is failing to be introduced into routine practice. Additionally, in robotic surgery, the surgeon is physically separated from the patient and the rest of the team, with the potential to negatively impact teamwork in the operating theatre. The aim of this study is to ascertain: how and under what circumstances robotic surgery is effectively introduced into routine practice; and how and under what circumstances robotic surgery impacts teamwork, communication and decision making, and subsequent patient outcomes.Keywords
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