Time-series and thematic analyses of clinical utilities and operational issues in early clinical studies of the da Vinci surgical system.

Abstract

During early adoption of robotic surgeries, evidence is primarily descriptive, and how such evidence emerges and accumulates over time remains poorly understood. This study introduces a framework for modeling the temporal dynamics of descriptive evidence on device-level utilities and operational issues accumulated during early adoption of the da Vinci system. We employed a three-step approach comprising systematic dataset acquisition, thematic coding of device utilities and operational issues, a