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1. Full Text Utilization of minimally invasive surgery in endometrial cancer care: A Quality and cost disparity
by Fader, Amanda N and Matsuno Weise, R and Sinno, Abdulrahman K and Tanner, Edward J and Borah, Bijan J and Moriarty, James P and Bristow, Robert E and Makary, Martin A and Pronovost, Peter J and Hutfless, Susan and Dowdy, Sean C
Obstetrics and Gynecology, ISSN 0029-7844, 2016, Volume 127, Issue 1, pp. 91 - 100
OBJECTIVE: To describe case mix-adjusted hospital level utilization of minimally invasive surgery for hysterectomy in the treatment of early-stage endometrial... 
GYNECOLOGIC-ONCOLOGY | OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | United States | Hospitals, Low-Volume - statistics & numerical data | Humans | Middle Aged | Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - economics | Medicaid - statistics & numerical data | Hospitals, Low-Volume - standards | Hospitals, High-Volume - standards | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - utilization | Hysterectomy - standards | Female | Hysterectomy - economics | Hospitals, High-Volume - statistics & numerical data | Retrospective Studies | Robotic Surgical Procedures - utilization | Hysterectomy - methods | European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data | Surgical Wound Infection - etiology | Venous Thromboembolism - etiology | African Americans - statistics & numerical data | Robotic Surgical Procedures - economics | Robotic Surgical Procedures - trends | Endometrial Neoplasms - surgery | Aged | Hospitalization - economics
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2. Full Text Evidence-based surgical care and the evolution of fast-track surgery
by Kehlet, Henrik and Wilmore, Douglas W
Annals of Surgery, ISSN 0003-4932, 08/2008, Volume 248, Issue 2, pp. 189 - 198
Background: Optimization of postoperative outcome requires the application of evidence-based principles of care carefully integrated into a multimodal... 
SURGERY | TOTAL HIP-ARTHROPLASTY | MECHANICAL BOWEL PREPARATION | KNEE ARTHROPLASTY | RANDOMIZED CLINICAL-TRIAL | INGUINAL-HERNIA REPAIRS | POSTOPERATIVE OUTCOMES | ACUTE PAIN SERVICE | LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY | INFRARENAL AORTIC-SURGERY | POUCH-ANAL ANASTOMOSIS | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - methods | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Follow-Up Studies | Humans | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Male | Forecasting | Recovery of Function | Patient Satisfaction | Evidence-Based Medicine - standards | Evidence-Based Medicine - trends | Postoperative Care | Time Factors | Sensitivity and Specificity | Length of Stay - trends | Female | Registries | Pain Measurement | Surgical Procedures, Operative - trends | Surgical Procedures, Operative - methods | Quality of Health Care
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3. Full Text Learning Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery: A Cumulative Sum Sequential Probability Analysis of 3895 Operations From a Single High-Volume Center
by Holzhey, David M and Seeburger, Joerg and Misfeld, Martin and Borger, Michael A and Mohr, Friedrich W
Circulation, ISSN 0009-7322, 07/2013, Volume 128, Issue 5, pp. 483 - 491
BACKGROUND—Learning curves are vigorously discussed and viewed as a negative aspect of adopting new procedures. However, very few publications have... 
mitral valve | learning curve | surgery | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | CORONARY-ARTERY-BYPASS | PUMP | SOCIETY | REPAIR | CARDIAC-SURGERY | CURVE | PROLAPSE | PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE | FAILURE ANALYSIS | OUTCOMES | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - standards | Prospective Studies | Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - trends | Humans | Middle Aged | Probability | Male | Mitral Valve - surgery | Treatment Outcome | Postoperative Complications - epidemiology | Postoperative Complications - diagnosis | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - standards | Thoracotomy - standards | Physicians - standards | Physicians - trends | Female | Aged | Retrospective Studies | Clinical Competence - standards | Learning Curve | Thoracotomy - trends | Cardiovascular system | Heart valve diseases | Care and treatment | Minimally invasive surgery | Usage | Surgery | Health aspects
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4. Full Text Reduced Acute Care Costs With the ERAS® Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion Compared With Conventional Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion
by Wang, Michael Y and Chang, Hsuan Kan and Grossman, Jay
Neurosurgery, ISSN 0148-396X, 10/2018, Volume 83, Issue 4, pp. 827 - 834
Abstract BACKGROUND Enhancing Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) programs have been widely adopted throughout the world, but not in spinal surgery. In this report,... 
SURGERY | Spine | Cost | Enhancing recovery | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | ENHANCED-RECOVERY | Pedicle screw | Economic | Percutaneous | Minimally invasive | QALY | Anesthesia | Exparel | LIPOSOMAL BUPIVACAINE | PERIOPERATIVE CARE | ERAS | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - methods | Blood Loss, Surgical - prevention & control | Decompression, Surgical - economics | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Spinal Fusion - methods | Lumbar Vertebrae - diagnostic imaging | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - economics | Treatment Outcome | Spinal Fusion - economics | Health Care Costs - trends | Neurosurgical Procedures - economics | Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery | Decompression, Surgical - methods | Female | Aged | Neurosurgical Procedures - methods | Retrospective Studies | Spinal Fusion - trends
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5. Full Text Micro-invasive glaucoma surgery: current perspectives and future directions
by Saheb, Hady and Ahmed, Iqbal Ike K
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, ISSN 1040-8738, 03/2012, Volume 23, Issue 2, pp. 96 - 104
PURPOSE OF REVIEWThere is an increasing interest and availability of micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) procedures. It is important that this increase is... 
Micro-invasive glaucoma surgery | Novel glaucoma procedures | Ab interno glaucoma surgery | CANALOPLASTY | COST-EFFECTIVENESS | LASER TRABECULOPLASTY | OUTFLOW PATHWAY | TRABECULOTOMY | micro-invasive glaucoma surgery | OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA | OCULAR HYPERTENSION | OPHTHALMOLOGY | ENUCLEATED HUMAN EYES | PERFUSION | OUTCOMES | novel glaucoma procedures | Intraocular Pressure - physiology | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Glaucoma, Open-Angle - surgery | Microsurgery - trends | Filtering Surgery - trends | Humans
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6. Full Text Minimally invasive surgery: national trends in adoption and future directions for hospital strategy
by Tsui, Charlotte and Klein, Rachel and Garabrant, Matthew
Surgical Endoscopy, ISSN 0930-2794, 7/2013, Volume 27, Issue 7, pp. 2253 - 2257
Surgeons have rapidly adopted minimally invasive surgical (MIS) techniques for a wide range of applications since the first laparoscopic appendectomy was... 
Robotic surgery | Minimally invasive surgery | Medicine & Public Health | Surgery | Gynecology | Hepatology | Gastroenterology | Abdominal Surgery | Strategy | Laparoscopy | Proctology | SURGERY | LAPAROSCOPIC HYSTERECTOMY | Clinical Competence | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Robotics - statistics & numerical data | Robotics - trends | United States | Hospital Administration | Humans | Laparoscopy - trends | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - statistics & numerical data | Laparoscopy - statistics & numerical data | Forecasting | General Surgery | Tubal sterilization | Hernia | Laparoscopic surgery | Forecasts and trends | Hysterectomy | Robots
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7. Full Text Predictors of Outcome in Conservative and Minimally Invasive Surgical Management of Pain Originating From the Sacroiliac Joint: A Pooled Analysis
by Dengler, Julius and Duhon, Bradley and Whang, Peter and Frank, Clay and Glaser, John and Sturesson, Bengt and Garfin, Steven and Cher, Daniel and Rendahl, Aaron and Polly, David and INSITE Study Grp and iMIA Study Grp and SIFI Study Grp and INSITE, iMIA, SIFI study groups
SPINE, ISSN 0362-2436, 11/2017, Volume 42, Issue 21, pp. 1664 - 1673
STUDY DESIGN.A pooled patient-level analysis of two multicenter randomized controlled trials and one multicenter single-arm prospective trial. OBJECTIVE.The... 
MODULAR ANCHORAGE SCREWS | FUSION | LOW-BACK-PAIN | NONSURGICAL TREATMENT | EFFICACY | disability | low back pain | PERIARTICULAR CORTICOSTEROID TREATMENT | GUIDELINES | sacroiliac joint pain | LUMBAR | 6-MONTH OUTCOMES | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | fusion of the sacroiliac joint | ARTHRODESIS | ORTHOPEDICS | opioid use | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - methods | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Predictive Value of Tests | Spinal Fusion - methods | Prospective Studies | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - methods | Humans | Middle Aged | Pain Management - methods | Conservative Treatment - trends | Male | Treatment Outcome | Conservative Treatment - methods | Back Pain - diagnosis | Sacroiliac Joint - pathology | Back Pain - surgery | Time Factors | Pain Management - trends | Adult | Female | Aged | Sacroiliac Joint - surgery | Spinal Fusion - trends | Arthralgia - therapy | Surgery
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8. Full Text National Trends in Postoperative Outcomes and Cost Comparing Minimally Invasive Versus Open Liver and Pancreatic Surgery
by Okunrintemi, Victor and Gani, Faiz and Pawlik, Timothy M
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, ISSN 1091-255X, 11/2016, Volume 20, Issue 11, pp. 1836 - 1843
Although minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has been associated with improved postoperative clinical outcomes, the widespread use of MIS by procedure and... 
Costs | Medicine & Public Health | Surgery | Liver | MIS | Outcome | Gastroenterology | Trends | Pancreas | Open | SURGERY | GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | United States - epidemiology | Hepatectomy - statistics & numerical data | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - economics | Elective Surgical Procedures - economics | Pancreatectomy - statistics & numerical data | Young Adult | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Elective Surgical Procedures - methods | Pancreatectomy - trends | Liver - surgery | Databases, Factual | Elective Surgical Procedures - statistics & numerical data | Hospital Costs - statistics & numerical data | Hepatectomy - methods | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - statistics & numerical data | Treatment Outcome | Pancreatectomy - economics | Elective Surgical Procedures - trends | Pancreas - surgery | Adolescent | Hepatectomy - economics | Hepatectomy - trends | Aged | Pancreatectomy - methods | Medical colleges | Analysis | Health care reform | Medical care, Cost of
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9. Full Text Comparison of one-level minimally invasive and open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in degenerative and isthmic spondylolisthesis grades 1 and 2
by Wang, Jian and Zhou, Yue and Zhang, Zheng Feng and Li, Chang Qing and Zheng, Wen Jie and Liu, Jie
European Spine Journal, ISSN 0940-6719, 10/2010, Volume 19, Issue 10, pp. 1780 - 1784
Minimally invasive lumbar fusion techniques have only recently been developed. The goals of these procedures are to reduce approach-related soft tissue injury,... 
Minimally invasive surgery | Surgical Orthopedics | Medicine & Public Health | Comparison | Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion | Neurosurgery | Isthmic and degenerative spondylolisthesis | POSTERIOR | BACK MUSCLE INJURY | SPINE SURGERY | ORTHOPEDICS | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - methods | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Spinal Fusion - methods | Spondylolisthesis - pathology | Prospective Studies | Lumbar Vertebrae - diagnostic imaging | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Spondylolisthesis - diagnostic imaging | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - instrumentation | Spinal Fusion - instrumentation | Spondylolisthesis - surgery | Radiography | Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery | Adult | Female | Lumbar Vertebrae - pathology | Spinal Fusion - trends | Medical colleges | Spondylolisthesis | Care and treatment | Pain | Comparative analysis | Backache | Original
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10. Full Text Minimally Invasive Spinal Deformity Surgery: Current State and Future Direction
by Chang, Peng-Yuan and Wang, Michael Y
Neurosurgery, ISSN 0148-396X, 08/2016, Volume 63, Issue CN_suppl_1, pp. 43 - 51
Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - methods | Scoliosis - surgery | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Orthopedic Procedures - trends | Humans | Orthopedic Procedures - methods | Female | Male | Treatment Outcome
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11. Full Text Worldwide trends in surgical techniques in the treatment of esophageal and gastroesophageal junction cancer
by Haverkamp, L and Seesing, M. F J and Ruurda, J. P and Boone, J and van Hillegersberg, R
Diseases of the Esophagus, ISSN 1120-8694, 01/2017, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 1 - 7
The aim of this study was to evaluate the worldwide trends in surgical techniques for esophageal cancer surgery by comparing it to our survey from 2007. In... 
Gastroesophageal junction | Surgery | Journal Article | Gastroenterology | Cancer | Esophagus | MINIMALLY INVASIVE ESOPHAGECTOMY | ANASTOMOSIS | gastroesophageal junction | METAANALYSIS | HOSPITAL VOLUME | GASTRIC-CANCER | ADENOCARCINOMA | cancer | OUTCOMES | GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY | esophagus | surgery | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Adenocarcinoma - pathology | Anastomosis, Surgical - trends | Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - pathology | Gastrectomy - trends | Humans | Esophagogastric Junction - pathology | Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - surgery | Stomach Neoplasms - pathology | Esophagectomy - trends | Esophageal Neoplasms - pathology | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - trends | Esophagogastric Junction - surgery | Esophageal Neoplasms - surgery | Surveys and Questionnaires | Stomach Neoplasms - surgery | Adenocarcinoma - surgery | Lymph Node Excision - trends
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12. Full Text Evolution and changing trends in surgery for benign Parotid tumors
by Mantsopoulos, Konstantinos and Koch, Michael and Klintworth, Nils and Zenk, Johannes and Iro, Heinrich
The Laryngoscope, ISSN 0023-852X, 01/2015, Volume 125, Issue 1, pp. 122 - 127
Objective/Hypothesis The ideal extent of surgical intervention for benign parotid tumors remains a matter of controversy. The aim of the study was to trace the... 
facial palsy | partial parotidectomy | Parotid gland | benign tumors | Frey's syndrome | extracapsular dissection | Extracapsular dissection | Partial parotidectomy | Facial palsy | Benign tumors | SYSTEM | MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL | PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMAS | MORBIDITY | OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY | DISEASE | GLAND | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Postoperative Complications - etiology | Parotid Gland - surgery | Humans | Middle Aged | Child, Preschool | Infant | Male | Sweating, Gustatory - epidemiology | Incidence | Young Adult | Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures - methods | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures - trends | Parotid Neoplasms - surgery | Sweating, Gustatory - etiology | Retrospective Studies | Facial Paralysis - epidemiology | Child | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - methods | Postoperative Complications - epidemiology | Parotid Gland - pathology | Adolescent | Parotid Neoplasms - pathology | Aged | Facial Paralysis - etiology | Germany | Health aspects | Analysis | Tumors
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13. Full Text Paradigm changes in spine surgery-evolution of minimally invasive techniques
by Smith, Zachary A and Fessler, Richard G
Nature Reviews Neurology, ISSN 1759-4758, 08/2012, Volume 8, Issue 8, pp. 443 - 450
Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) techniques were developed to address morbidities associated with open spinal surgery approaches. MISS was initially... 
MINI-OPEN | STENOSIS | LAMINECTOMY | MANAGEMENT | LATERAL EXTRACAVITARY APPROACH | BILATERAL DECOMPRESSION | DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS | PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS | LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION | UNILATERAL APPROACH | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - methods | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - trends | Guidelines as Topic | Spinal Diseases - surgery | Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures - standards | Humans | Spine - surgery | Stenosis | Care and treatment | Research | Spine | Health aspects | Surgery
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