Development of a charting method to monitor the individual performance of surgeons at the beginning of their career.

BACKGROUND: Efforts to provide a valid picture of surgeons' individual performance evolution should frame their outcomes in relation to what is expected depending on their experience. We derived the learning curve of young thyroidectomy surgeons as a baseline to enable the accurate assessment o...

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Main Authors: Antoine Duclos, Matthew J Carty, Jean-Louis Peix, Cyrille Colin, Stuart R Lipsitz, Jean-Louis Kraimps, Fabrice Menegaux, François Pattou, Fréderic Sebag, Nicolas Voirin, Sandrine Touzet, Stéphanie Bourdy, Jean-Christophe Lifante, CATHY Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3409207?pdf=render