Network analysis of surgical innovation: Measuring value and the virality of diffusion in robotic surgery.

Existing surgical innovation frameworks suffer from a unifying limitation, their qualitative nature. A rigorous approach to measuring surgical innovation is needed that extends beyond detecting simply publication, citation, and patent counts and instead uncovers an implementation-based value from th...

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Main Authors: George Garas, Isabella Cingolani, Pietro Panzarasa, Ara Darzi, Thanos Athanasiou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5571947?pdf=render