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Rigorous validation methodologies and statistical tools are imperative when evaluating surgical simulation tools to ensure they effectively improve patient outcomes and reduce surgical errors.
Emphasizes the need for rigorous validation methodologies and statistical tools in surgical simulation training to ensure improved patient outcomes.
Surgical simulation will play an increasingly important role in helping to train surgical skills. Tools of varying fidelity including benchtop models and virtual reality computer-generated simulations will be needed to most effectively train for accomplishing specific tasks and techniques. We must search for and identify how best to employ simulation to enable the trainee to master the requisite skills. It is imperative that in our investigation, validation methodologies, rating scales, and statistical tools be rigorously and accurately employed lest we be led astray by acceptance and assumption too freely given. The measure of our effectiveness will be whether or not patients enjoy improved outcomes and experience a reduction in surgical errors and complications.
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Richard L. Angelo (2017) conducted an editorial in Surgical training. Surgical simulation was evaluated. Rigorous validation methodologies and statistical tools are imperative when evaluating surgical simulation tools to ensure they effectively improve patient outcomes and reduce surgical errors.
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