From the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Hoogerboord, Ellsmere); the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ont. (Caycedo-Marulanda); the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Brown); the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Jayaraman, Urbach); the Department of Surgery, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, Ont. (Jayaraman); the Department of Surgery, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ont. (Urbach); and the Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Cleary).
Can J Surg. 2019 Apr 1;62(2):139-141. doi: 10.1503/cjs.003118.
Comparisons with other high-income countries suggest that Canada has been slower to adopt laparoscopic colectomy (LC). The Canadian Association of General Surgeons sought to evaluate the barriers to adoption of laparoscopic colon surgery and to propose potential intervention strategies to enhance the use of the procedure. Given the clinical benefits of laparoscopic surgery for patients, the increasing needs for surgical care and the desire of Canadian general surgeons to advance their specialty and enhance the care of their patients, it is an important priority to improve the utilization of LC.
与其他高收入国家相比，加拿大采用腹腔镜结肠切除术（LC）的速度较慢。加拿大普通外科医师协会试图评估采用腹腔镜结肠手术的障碍，并提出潜在的干预策略来增强该手术的应用。鉴于腹腔镜手术对患者的临床益处、对手术护理的需求不断增加以及加拿大普通外科医师希望推进其专业并加强对患者的护理，提高 LC 的利用率是一个重要的优先事项。
