Renal and Urology News provided coverage of an abstract from the 2018 AUA Annual Meeting regarding the prevalence of robotic assistance in urologic surgery cases, which features Dr. Jim C. Hu for external commentary:
"The findings are supportive of robotic vs open surgery similar to the individual studies that serve as the underpinnings, but one must consider publication bias," said Jim C. Hu, MD, MPH, Director of the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian in New York. "These are meta-analyses of published studies. The question remains whether these findings are representative of community and academic centers that do not publish results. For instance, 30% of robotic utilization in 2005 is higher than population-based studies using insurance claims and industry estimates."
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