The increasing prominence of “non-surgical” articles in surgical literature

Publications in the surgical field have usually to do with technical skills (TS). However, the field peripheral to surgical procedures, which brings to bear non-technical skills (NTS) has been achieving increasing prominence. The goal of this study is to objectively assess the evolution of the two fields in surgical literature. The authors perused all the articles published over a decade in four large-scale surgical journals and assigned them to...