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[Learning curves in acquisition of experience for new technologies]
I A Matveev1, N V Sipachev2, B K Gibert1
1Tyumen State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Tyumen, Russia.
Objective:
Analysis of national and foreign trials investigating accumulation of experience in innovative technologies using the learning curves.
Material And Methods. S:
Earching for Russian-language manuscripts was carried out within the references of the articles and in the ELIBRARY database. Foreign trials were selected from the PubMed database according to the keywords «learning curves in surgical practice». The discovered publications were studied for accordance with the objectives of this study.
Results:
Accumulation of experience in new technologies by using of learning curves is valuable to improve the training, determine duration of development of new technology and the factors affecting its characteristics.
Conclusion:
The method is high-quality for comprehensive analysis of experience accumulation in new surgical technologies.
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