Surgical endoscopy
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Controlled Clinical Trial
Simulation in laparoscopic surgery: a concurrent validity study for FLS.
Current assessments using the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) tasks are labour intensive and depend heavily on expert raters. Hand motion analysis may offer an alternative method of objective evaluation of FLS performance. ⋯ There is a high correlation between FLS standard scoring and motion efficiency metrics. The use of ICSAD for the objective assessment of FLS tasks may in the future offer an adjunctive method of evaluation. ICSAD metrics are potentially less labour intensive due to the instant and fully automated computerized scoring that it provides.