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Underreporting of robotic surgery complications.
September 18, 2013
Cooper M, Ibrahim AM, Lyu H, et al. J Healthc Qual. 2015;37(2):133-8.
By cross-referencing court records and news reports with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) adverse device event database, the authors identified several cases of preventable adverse events in robotic laparoscopic surgery that were not properly reported to the FDA. A checklist has been proposed to minimize hazards in robotic surgery.
