# In 73 Michigan hospitals, robotic surgery rose from 1.8% to 15.1% of common general-surgery operations between 2012 and 2018

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20180630-surgeon-8
Date: 2018-06-30 · Stage: Deployment
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## Scope

Michigan, United States. The peer-reviewed study of 169,404 patients in 73 hospitals finds the use of robotic surgery for common general-surgery procedures increased from 1.8% in 2012 to 15.1% in 2018, while open surgery fell from 42.4% to 32.4%, and that hospitals launching robotic programmes saw laparoscopic surgery fall from 53.2% to 51.3%. Data from January 2012 to June 2018. The surgeon still operates the robot from a console; one state, and nothing after 2018.

## Source

- Sheetz, Claflin and Dimick — 'Trends in the Adoption of Robotic Surgery for Common Surgical Procedures', JAMA Network Open 3(1):e1918911 (10 January 2020), PubMed Central — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6991252/ (primary source)

## What this means

A growing share of operations is done through a robot the surgeon controls, rather than by the surgeon's hands in the patient.

## What it does not show yet

One state, data ending in 2018; the robot is controlled by the surgeon, so this is not autonomy.

## How to verify it yourself

Open the article on PubMed Central and find "The use of robotic surgery increased from 1.8% in 2012 to 15.1% in 2018".


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