NCT05595343

Learning Curves in Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy: A Different Experience for Each Generation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 600 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Poliambulanza Istituto Ospedaliero · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

This study compared the learning curves and outcome of Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy between 'pioneers' and early adopters in terms of feasibility and proficiency using short term outcomes.

Detailed description

Learning curves of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) are mostly based on 'pioneering' surgeons who acquired sufficient proficiency largely through self-teaching. No learning curves have been investigated for early adopting surgeons who performed surgery in later stages of the IDEAL framework and build on the experience of the 'pioneering' surgeons. This study compared the learning curves and outcome of LDP between 'pioneers' and early adopters in terms of feasibility and proficiency using short term outcomes over a period from 1997-2019.

Conditions

• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy	Comparison of performed laparoscopic distal pancreas surgery in two different surgeon groups

Timeline

• Start date: 1997-12-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2022-10-26
• Last updated: 2022-10-26