Nicole Lunardi, Aida Abou-Zamzam, Katherine L Florecki, Swathikan Chidambaram, I-Fan Shih, Alistair J Kent, Bellal Joseph, James P Byrne, Joseph V Sakran
IMPORTANCE: Although robotic surgery has become an established approach for a wide range of elective operations, data on its utility and outcomes are limited in the setting of emergency general surgery. OBJECTIVES: To describe temporal trends in the use of laparoscopic and robotic approaches and compare outcomes between robotic and laparoscopic surgery for 4 common emergent surgical procedures. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A retrospective cohort study of an all-payer discharge database of 829 US facilities was conducted from calendar years 2013 to 2021...
March 6, 2024: JAMA Surgery