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. 2018 Aug 28;320(8):835-836.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.9219.

Estimation of the Acquisition and Operating Costs for Robotic Surgery

Christopher P Childers  1 , Melinda Maggard-Gibbons  1
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Estimation of the Acquisition and Operating Costs for Robotic Surgery

Christopher P Childers et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study used 1999-2017 financial statements from INTUITIVE, the company that supplies most robotic technology, to establish a hospital cost benchmark to inform future cost-effectiveness evaluations.

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Figure.. Robot System Shipments and Installations and Procedure Volume Data, 2010-2017
Installed base indicates units shipped minus trade-ins and returns. Although the overall structure of each financial statement is similar, some individual data points were not reported for the entire study period. For example, US procedure volume was introduced in 2010. To avoid introducing unsubstantiated assumptions, data are only presented when continuous elements are available for all years until 2017.
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