How to fill the surgical quality gap

For diagnosing and treating the surgical quality gap a video-based assessment will be necessary. Numerous medical publications in specialist journals over the past years have shown that a broader understanding and interest is being built on this important topic.

The goals of the new digital method are firstly to increase the workflow efficiency and on the other hand to improve the clinical results. But what about surgical outcome variability? Why is it that, in spite of the increased implementation of digitally-integrated workflows, not all surgeries are created equal?

This was the focus of a recent study conducted at the University of Michigan which addressed variability of surgical outcomes following minimally-invasive Laparoscopic Colectomy (LC).