Author response to: The impact of virtual-reality simulation training on operative performance in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Gemma Humm^{1

2}, Helen Mohan³, Christina Fleming⁴, Rhiannon Harries⁵, Christopher Wood⁶, Khaled Dawas², Danail Stoyanov¹, Laurence B Lovat^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Wellcome/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
² UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK.
³ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
⁵ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea, UK.
⁶ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

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Gemma Humm et al. BJS Open. 2022.

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Gemma Humm^{1

2}, Helen Mohan³, Christina Fleming⁴, Rhiannon Harries⁵, Christopher Wood⁶, Khaled Dawas², Danail Stoyanov¹, Laurence B Lovat^{1

2}

¹ Wellcome/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
² UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK.
³ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
⁵ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Swansea, UK.
⁶ Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

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The impact of virtual reality simulation training on operative performance in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.
Humm G, Mohan H, Fleming C, Harries R, Wood C, Dawas K, Stoyanov D, Lovat LB. Humm G, et al. BJS Open. 2022 Jul 7;6(4):zrac086. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrac086. BJS Open. 2022. PMID: 35849132 Free PMC article.

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