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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surg Endosc. 2012 Dec 14;27(5):1721–1729. doi: 10.1007/s00464-012-2664-y

Table 3.

Data of LOT and completion times for subjects on VBLaST-PT© simulator. LOT-L and LOT-R represents LOT for left and right hand respectively.

Evaluation Criteria Experts Novice Mann-Whitney U-test P-value
Mean SD Mean SD
Task time (sec) 166.68 32.57 227.53 90.52 0.002
LOT-L (cm) 64.59 13.05 83.20 28.50 0.002
LOT-R (cm) 63.67 16.92 85.73 32.59 0.003
LOT- Average (cm) 64.13 14.55 84.46 30.17 0.004