Table 5.
Variable |
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Skill assessment |
1. Skill category (eg expert/novice/intermediate; 85%) |
2. Standardized structured rating scales (95%) |
3. Patient outcomes (90%) |
Learning curve |
1. Specific operative process measures, such as blood loss, ischemia time, and so forth (90%), but not operative time (77.5%) |
2. Measures of procedure-specific surgical success, such as continence or nonconversion (87.5%) |
3. Postoperative outcomes such as complication; length ofhospital stay (92.5%) |
4. Oncologic outcomes such as surgical margins, number of lymph nodes, and so forth (95%) |
5. Patient-specific outcomes such as survival, patient-reported outcomes such as quality of life, satisfaction, and so forth (82.5%) |
Personalized curricula |
1. Standardized milestones such as achieving a certain level of skill (100%) |
2. Surgeon perception of whether learner can be entrusted with specific aspects of care (80%) |
3. Performance in the operating room (100%) |
4. Surgical outcomes in patients (95%) |
5. Error in performing the operation (100%) |
Panel agreement shown in parentheses.