Journal of endourology
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Journal of endourology · May 2015
Crowd-sourced assessment of technical skills: an adjunct to urology resident surgical simulation training.
Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining services from a large group of people, typically an online community. Validated methods of evaluating surgical video are time-intensive, expensive, and involve participation of multiple expert surgeons. We sought to obtain valid performance scores of urologic trainees and faculty on a dry-laboratory robotic surgery task module by using crowdsourcing through a web-based grading tool called Crowd Sourced Assessment of Technical Skill (CSATS). ⋯ Surgery-naive crowd-workers can rapidly assess varying levels of surgical skill accurately relative to a panel of faculty raters. The crowds provided rapid feedback and were inexpensive. CSATS may be a valuable adjunct to surgical simulation training as requirements for more granular and iterative performance tracking of trainees become mandated and commonplace.
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Journal of endourology · May 2015
Comparative StudyOpen vs Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy: Assessing the Impact of BMI on Postoperative Outcomes in 3685 Cases from National Data.
Previous studies analyzing the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and complications after partial nephrectomy have been underpowered. We use a national surgical database to explore the association of BMI with postoperative outcomes for Open Partial Nephrectomy (OPN) and Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy (MIPN). ⋯ Although surgery in obese patients is longer compared to normal weight patients, it does not appear to increase the likelihood of 30-day postoperative complications for OPN or MIPN. However, obese patients undergoing MIPN had lower complication rates than those undergoing OPN.
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Journal of endourology · May 2015
The use of social media in endourology: an analysis of the 2013 World Congress of Endourology meeting.
To examine the use of social media within Endourology by reporting on its utilization during the 2013 World Congress of Endourology (WCE) annual meeting. ⋯ Despite a relatively low number of Twitter users, tweeting about the WCE meeting dramatically increased its online exposure with dissemination of content that was mostly informative including engagement with physicians not attending the conference. While half of faculty at WCE 2013 had LinkedIn accounts, their social media footprint in Twitter was limited.