Hospital factors strongly influence robotic use in general surgery

We hypothesized that general surgeons are more likely to use a robotic surgical platform at hospitals where more urologic and gynecologic robotic operations are performed, suggesting that hospital-related factors are important for choice of usage of minimally invasive platforms.We queried the National Inpatient Sample from 2010 to 2014 for patients who underwent stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, colon and rectum, or hernia (general...